The Wilderness Society is working with diverse groups to create a community vision for the Gallatin that marries permanent protection and recreational opportunity.
The real value of the Gallatin Range goes beyond its designated wilderness study area. The Wilderness Society has a long-standing commitment to protect the Gallatin Range.
The Shoshone is unique in the quantity and quality of wilderness and roadless areas. We’re defending these wild lands against reckless development and road building.
As the nation’s first national forest, the Shoshone is uniquely wild and scenic. More than half is designated as wilderness and another 30 percent is considered pristine.
Because of our work, the most special places in the Greater Yellowstone won’t be sacrificed by the oil and gas industry or destroyed by motorized recreation.
I came to Montana as a working tourist in 1972 — drawn by a summer job in Yellowstone. It took a while, but I found a way to make a life here. In Montana we've got big mountains, big rivers, big wildlife and that big sky. Thousands of businesses, like mine, depend on these spectacular natural assets. The recently released America's Great Outdoors (AGO) Report lays out a practical plan for protecting these things; it's nice to see Interior Secretary Salazar and other leaders in Washington investing in our natural capital.
The park on Thursday announced daily limits that will allow up to 318 snowmobiles and up to 78 snowcoaches per day in the park for the next two winter seasons.
The park has allowed up to 720 snowmobiles a day into the park over the past five winters, but actual use has been far less.
…Nash said the Park Service will keep the 318-snowmobile limit in place for Yellowstone over the next two winter seasons as it crafts a permanent winter-use management plan for the park.
Amy Argetsinger & Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post
Aug 14, 2009
Excerpts:
The Obama family heads to Yellowstone National Park on Saturday — thanks, in part, to Douglas Brinkley.
…The off-the-record dinner, reported Thursday by Vanity Fair, must have made an impression on the president. A few days later, Brinkley got a call from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar inviting him to drop by. The men spent two hours talking about conservation history, wildlife protection and where Obama should visit if he went to a national park.
We support a proposal by the Obama administration to cut by more than half the number of machines allowed each day this winter. There is no doubt that 318 — the proposed daily limit — is much better than 720 per day, the number allowed last winter under a Bush administration rule. But we prefer an even smaller number: zero.
