The latest evidence was unearthed in a story from the Billings Gazette (an article that, oddly, we found in the Spokane Spokesman). And now that more time has passed, it’s becoming more and more evident that maybe seeing the park via our favorite mode of winter transportation isn’t so bad after all. Somehow with all of that stress and disinformation going on, snowmobiles were not banned but were limited within the park. “BAN SNOWMOBILES!” they cried, and had college kids who couldn’t even identify Montana on a map going door-to-door in the suburbs across the country, seeking signatures on petitions. They had their story and they were sticking to it.
Forget the fact that snowmobile engines were getting notably cleaner. Never mind that summer traffic in the park was 100 times great than winter visitation. Listening to their stories, you would have assumed the nation’s first national park had become a polluted cesspool, with despondent animals trapped under a smog blanket and more stressed out and nervous than Brittney Spears at a family reunion. In the 1990s and early 2000s, extreme environmental groups were building up all sorts of steam for their theory that snowmobilers were ruining Yellowstone National Park.
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