SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Five lost snowmobilers spent a cold night stranded in the Bighorn Mountains before being rescued over the weekend in northern Wyoming. Sheridan County Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Conrad says the snowmobilers reported being lost in the Bighorn Mountains at about 7:45 p.m. on Saturday. They were found about...
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County Wants More Snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park
(CN) – A Wyoming county wants more snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park. The Park County Board of Commissioner challenged the Interior Department’s rule that allows only 318 snowmobiles a day in the nation’s oldest National Park. Park County claims the Department of Interior and National Park Service were arbitrary and...
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Wyo. snowmobile trail ranked No. 1
Associated Press – November 30, 2009 7:35 AM ET LANDER, Wyo. (AP) – For the third year in a row, Wyoming’s Continental Divide Snowmobile Trail has been ranked the number one snowmobile trail in the west by readers of a magazine. The trail was voted tops by the readers of...
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Wyoming sues over snowmobile limits
CHEYENNE — On Friday, Gov. Dave Freudenthal and the State of Wyoming challenged the National Park Service’s limit of 318 commercially-guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone National Park. The limit, Freudenthal said, “continues the Park Service’s unacceptable pattern of limiting public access to the public’s lands.” “This...
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Wyoming challenges Yellowstone snowmobile rules
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The state of Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block the National Park Service from further restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park. The Park Service issued a temporary rule on Friday that would allow up to 318 snowmobiles and 78 snowcoaches per day into...
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Interim Winter Use Rule for Yellowstone To Be Published
A rule implementing a new plan to provide for limited, regulated snowmobile and snowcoach access in Yellowstone National Park for the next two winters will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 20. This interim rule allows up to 318 commercially guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles, and...
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Yellowstone: Winter rule to be published Friday
A rule implementing a plan to provide for limited, regulated snowmobile and snow coach access in Yellowstone National Park for the next two winters will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. The interim rule allows up to 318 commercially guided, best-available-technology snowmobiles, and up to 78 commercially guided...
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Wyoming might help keep Sylvan Pass open
Snowmobilers who use Sylvan Pass on the eastern side of Yellowstone National Park recently got some promising news from Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal...
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