Howdy Folks,
Yellowstone National Park needs your help. If you would like to see
the Winter use of Yellowstone by hoards of snowmobiles curtailed,
thus protecting wildlife and their habitat. (Also the health of park
rangers who have to man the gates and breathe the fumes of hundreds
of snowmobiles daily) Then please read the following message that
was sent to me and visit the website where you too can send an
electronic postcard to help protect the park.
http://www.saveyellowstone.org/
Thanks,
Rex Bavousett
ps. please also pass this message on to any of your friends that
would be concerned.
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Dear Rex,
When you sent an email to the National Park Service recently, there was no
fanfare. But here is some feedback.
In all 50 states, people who care deeply about Yellowstone's future
responded the way you did. They visited www.saveyellowstone.org and sent the
site's electronic postcard to the Park Service, urging a restoration of
clean air and wilderness quiet in our first national park.
More good news: in the past month, a growing number of major newspapers
across the country have cast a spotlight on what is at stake in Yellowstone.
Today, for example, readers in Massachusetts picking up the Boston Globe,
are learning about the campaign to protect Yellowstone—the campaign you
helped by writing to the Park Service. From the Los Angeles Times to the
Salt Lake Tribune to the Oregonian in Portland, editorial boards have issued
strong calls for the Park Service to consider phasing out snowmobiles, to
uphold values and qualities in Yellowstone that the agency let decline
during the past 30 years.
There is also predictable but troubling news: the Blue Ribbon Coalition,
which lobbies for snowmobilers and is funded by the major manufacturers of
snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, recently submitted 5,000 letters
urging a continuation of snowmobiling in Yellowstone. Local politicians who
are more supportive of short-term economic benefits than the long-term
health of Yellowstone have also been exerting pressure on the Park Service
to continue snowmobiling despite its impairment of air quality, wildlife,
and a quieter experience sought by non-motorized park visitors.
So we are asking for your help again. The Park Service has extended until
December 15 its deadline for public comments. Please take a moment to think
of five additional people who share your desire to see Yellowstone
protected. Forward this email to those five park enthusiasts and encourage
them to visit http://www.saveyellowstone.org/ It will only take them
a few seconds
to send a comment to the Park Service. With your help, we have elevated this
crossroads for Yellowstone into a major national issue. Now, with your help,
we are seeking to ensure that more people who want Yellowstone kept as
unimpaired as possible will express their views to the Park Service in time
to make a difference.
Thank you!
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Rex L. Bavousett
Photographer
University of Iowa
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Our new name: University Communications & Outreach - Publications
100 OPL, Iowa City, IA 52242
http://www.uiowa.edu/~urpubs/
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voice: 319 384-0053
fax: 319 384-0055
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