http://www.latimes.com/features/outdoors/l...dlines-outdoors
September 30, 2003
Outcry over snowmobiles
By J. Michael Kennedy, Times Staff Writer
Now that the Bush administration has lifted a ban on snowmobiling in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, four former National Park Service directors are saying it's a major mistake.
The former directors complained in a letter to Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton this month, saying the snowmobile industry had reneged on a promise to make its machines cleaner and quieter. Instead, they say, snowmobiles are dirtier than ever and the manufacturers are guilty of betrayal. The ban was to have gone into effect this winter.
The four — George Hartzog Jr., Gary Everhardt, Russell Dickenson and Roger G. Kennedy — span almost three decades with the park service. Their complaint was based on findings by the Environmental Protection Agency, whose tests showed that some 2004 snowmobile models produced 40% to 213% more emissions than the 2002 versions.
Industry officials countered that they would have models that would meet the park service's standards.
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GOT BOMBARDIER? 
I'd be willing to bet they sampled a race machine in the 2004 studies. The current four stroke sleds are much cleaner then the two-stroke mills available in 2002. While there are plenty of two-strokes being made still, the majority of them are used in racing applications due to light weight and abundance of power.
If a snowmobile rips down a forest trail and no one is there to hear it...
Does it actually make a sound?
Does it actually make a sound?
[quote]Does it actually make a sound?[/quote]
Who cares? If a snowmobile rips through the dunes it does....and it'd be totally legal, so Blueboy's barking up the wrong tree here.
Who cares? If a snowmobile rips through the dunes it does....and it'd be totally legal, so Blueboy's barking up the wrong tree here.
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By J. Michael Kennedy, Times Staff Writer
Now that the Bush administration has lifted a ban on snowmobiling in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, four former National Park Service directors are saying it's a major mistake.
The former directors complained in a letter to Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton this month, saying the snowmobile industry had reneged on a promise to make its machines cleaner and quieter. Instead, they say, snowmobiles are dirtier than ever and the manufacturers are guilty of betrayal. The ban was to have gone into effect this winter.
The four — George Hartzog Jr., Gary Everhardt, Russell Dickenson and Roger G. Kennedy — span almost three decades with the park service. Their complaint was based on findings by the Environmental Protection Agency, whose tests showed that some 2004 snowmobile models produced 40% to 213% more emissions than the 2002 versions.
Industry officials countered that they would have models that would meet the park service's standards.
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I wonder if theses 4 idiots are members of PEER? Second, stating that the newer models were louder and produced more emissions than the older models is a bold face lie! :x And this was published in the Times? More than likely the LA (green sheet) Times! :roll:
By J. Michael Kennedy, Times Staff Writer
Now that the Bush administration has lifted a ban on snowmobiling in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, four former National Park Service directors are saying it's a major mistake.
The former directors complained in a letter to Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton this month, saying the snowmobile industry had reneged on a promise to make its machines cleaner and quieter. Instead, they say, snowmobiles are dirtier than ever and the manufacturers are guilty of betrayal. The ban was to have gone into effect this winter.
The four — George Hartzog Jr., Gary Everhardt, Russell Dickenson and Roger G. Kennedy — span almost three decades with the park service. Their complaint was based on findings by the Environmental Protection Agency, whose tests showed that some 2004 snowmobile models produced 40% to 213% more emissions than the 2002 versions.
Industry officials countered that they would have models that would meet the park service's standards.
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I wonder if theses 4 idiots are members of PEER? Second, stating that the newer models were louder and produced more emissions than the older models is a bold face lie! :x And this was published in the Times? More than likely the LA (green sheet) Times! :roll:
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