The Conservation Alliance

Winter Wildlands Alliance won an important court ruling that will limit snowmobile use in Yellowstone in 2008-2009, and sets the stage for a complete ban in the near future. The ruling says the Bush Administration's decision authorizing snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park -- after a short-lived ban enacted under the Clinton Administration -- violates the fundamental legal responsibility of the National Park Service to protect the clean air, wildlife, and natural quiet of national parks, including Yellowstone, for the benefit of all visitors. The Conservation Alliance supported this effort with a $35,000 grant in 2001.