Snowmobiles Banned in Yellowstone by God Her(Him)self
By Rocky Thompson on September 18th, 2008
A federal judge ordered that snowmobiles be banned from Yellowstone National Park striking down a Bush Administration law that allowed 500 snowmobilers to travel through the park per day. It looks like Cheney missed one or two liberal judges in his culling of the Justice Department a few years back (must be one of the leftover guys Clinton appointed after he fired everyone the first time around).
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Wyoming senators are predictably upset about the whole thing since their only mode of transportation is a snowmobile and going around the park on the trip to Washington takes way too long. Either way, the decision is bound to be controversial, but for now chalk one up for the non-motorized crowd.
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Thanks Bryant
Hell yeah! OO-Rah !!
Makes me feel like all warm and fuzzy inside…..
Yeah….let’s celebrate the tree-hugging liberal judges over stepping their authority in order to adjudicate us back to the stone age. Good Times!!
Yeah…let’s celebrate choking on 2-stroke fumes while all peace and quite is drowned out by the sound of hundreds of fatasses on sleds, refusing to walk anywhere! Good times!!
Yeah, the tree hugging liberal judges over stepping their authority! Oh. Wait. The judge was appointed by Reagan and Bush 1. Use your legs, sledneck.
WOW! that would be sweet if we could find a piece of wilderness in pristine stone age condition!
^ You’ve got the speech down, man! Hit all the key terms, holding the party line.
So does any judge you disagree with get tagged as “tree-hugging liberal judges over stepping their authority”? If the judge was making up data or something similarly egregious, it might be easier to find him an exception. In his ruling, he used NPS data. Yes, you may find his ruling disagreeable, but that doesn’t make him a nutjob. The case has been going on for years because it isn’t as clear cut as you would like to portray. The way our court system is set up, only one side can win.
Are we going to have to hear about the liberal judges feeding all your big bull elks to the illegal immigrant wolves next?
T.S.
Being a native son of the Cowboy State I may know more about this issue than you give me credit for. Yes, the battle has been going on for years and no doubt before the snow falls there will be another ruling over turning this recent one. It is after all just about the money right?
Are all judges I disagree with tree-huggers? No, but it’s interesting that most of those that I disagree with “seem” to favor a more liberal agenda and “appear” to favor judicial legislation over simply reading the Constitution and enforcing it as per their job description. I’m all for power to the people, not the judgment bar.
By the way, don’t worry about those migrating wolves, we’ve already cleared them out of our hunting grounds. That short-lived open season was pleasant.
I’m not questioning your knowledge, more your language. Just as in your second post (“simply reading the Constitution”), you seem to draw very clear lines. I’m just saying I doubt it’s so clear. Yes, this is a federal judge ruling about a federal matter, but there is far more involved than simply the constitution. The park was created after the constitution, as were snowmobiles.
There sure were a lot of big elk out when I was in your neck of the woods a few weeks ago. The wolves must be cherry picking the lame and weak, so all that’s left are the big and strong. They might actually be benefiting you. Weird, huh?
motor vehicles should be banned from national parks. all hail lord abbey!
They banned snomobiles, but I can still ride my snowmachine into the park right? Right?!?
BY a show of hands how many of you are camping in Yellowstone during the middle of winter and need the peace and quite to survive there when attacked by wild animals that go hunting foe food when hungry?
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Come on, come on… don’t hate on the snowmobile’s. It’s all good. Yes, Yellowstone has amazing wildlife and sick mtns… so lets ALL enjoy it! Don’t be jealous, just because we can cover more ground in 5 minutes on a sled, then you’d be able to in a week.
Snowmobiles should not be banned. We should share the wilderness. If it comes down to it park rangers can enforce a noise restriction, and there already was an emmisions restriction when snowmobiles were allowed in the park. So quit crying about loud noises and two stroke fumes. If your such an environmentalist stay out of the park all together because walking through the forest does more damage to its environment than a snowmobile does. Its proven and taught at all snowmobile saftey courses.
‘beelers are trespassing, inconsiderate, vandalizing imbeciles. Ive been harassed by them for 20 years. Tried to be one for a while, found out they are all a bunch of self centered, egotistical simpletons. They hate anyone that wants a different winter experience. All my “friends” that were once kind caring sharing skiers, snowboarders and snowshoers became snowmobilers and took on the qualities just described. It seems that people just want to be in a group where they can unite to make others outside their own dog-pack miserable. I’m tired of having to hide from them to enjoy a few backcountry turns in peace. Tired of having to be friendly to participants in a sport that I have learned to despise, so they won’t burn down my house or vandalize my car. ‘beelers have millions of acres of public land to stench and destroy so why do they get so up in arms when asked to leave a few acres alone? They are full of it and prove it every day.
I spent my ski-bumming years working in various National Parks in the summertimes. We the employees often had to adhere to otherwise annoying rules and regs while on the Fed land in order to protect and conserve the land and animals/plants living on it. That is the point of National Parks in the first place. Little slices of beautiful land to be enjoyed and shared as natural places now and for the generations to come. Snow machines should be kept out of Yellowstone. The winters up there are just so brutal, the animals living up there are being stretched to their limits just to stay alive until things warm up again. The last thing any of them need is a clique of folks rooping around and causing a ruckus. Take a look at a map of the West; there are MILLIONS of acres of Forest Service and BLM land that can be used to rally around on machines. Leaving a bit of land closed off for the sake of some really struggling critters isn’t really too much to ask. If you’re up there in the wintertime, go rip around in the Bridgers or Gallatins or otherwise. Gorgeous and legal-beagle.
GO SLEDNECKS!!!! the tree huggers are just jealous that they cant have fun, sleds rule!