Now it is also time to push to ban the use of Jet Skis on our national waterways!!!!!! Rex Bavousett >Here's a bit of good news. Pat yourselves on the back for this one. >You richly deserve it. > >Peggy Murdock > >*** Nat'l Park Service bans snowmobiles >WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Park Service Thursday issued a broad >ban on recreational use of snowmobiles at nearly all of the national >parks, recreational areas and monuments. The off-road vehicles have >had "significant adverse environmental effect" on the park system, >the agency said. The only exceptions to the ban were parks in Alaska >and the Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota, where Congress >specifically allowed use of snowmobiles, and in cases where the >vehicles are considered necessary for access to adjacent private >lands or inholdings, the agency said. The ban applies to 12 national >parks from Acadia in Maine to Sequoia and Kings Canyon in California, >including Yellowstone in Wyoming, where snowmobiling has been the >focus of intense controversy. Snowmobiling also no longer will be >allowed in 15 national seashores, monuments, parkways, historic >sites, recreational areas and scenic trails. See >http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566052625-c8b *** >List of snowmobile ban parks, see >http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2566051062-233 -- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Rex L. Bavousett Photographer University of Iowa Our old name: University Relations - Publications Our new name: University Communications & Outreach - Publications 100 OPL, Iowa City, IA 52242 http://www.uiowa.edu/~urpubs/ mailto:[log in to unmask] voice: 319 384-0053 fax: 319 384-0055 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^