YESSSSSSS! Peggy Murdock At 09:45 AM 5/3/00 , you wrote: >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 >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^