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Crater Lake Eyed for Helicopter Tours
August 4, 2009UPDATE 3/25/10: The Senate has passed legislation allowing the NPS to ban helicopter tours at Crater Lake without going through a lengthy inter-agency process with the FAA. The measure still needs to be approved by a House-Senate conference committee. A request from an air tour operator to begin helicopter flights in Crater Lake National Park has […]
FWS Wind Farm Siting Recommendations Still Fail to Consider Noise Impacts
June 11, 2009Call me naive, but I never imagined that the Fish and Wildlife Service would make it nearly to the conclusion of its process of developing Siting Recommendations for wind farms without any consideration of the acoustic footprint of these sprawling industrial installations. Of all the possible impacts that large wind farms may have, their acoustic […]
Hempton’s Opus: A Quest for Silence
April 7, 2009An AEI book review of: One Square Inch of Silence: One Man’s Quest for Natural Silence in a Noisy World Gordon Hempton and John Grossman Free Press, 2009 After a quarter century of listening to and recording the sounds of the world around him, along the way becoming one of the most respected natural sound […]
Yellowstone Opens for Winter Season As Judges Duel for Jurisdiction
December 18, 2008The Bush administration’s 8-years of Yellowstone winter use meddling continues to the bitter end: after immediately overturning the Clinton-era phase-out of snowmobiles in the Park during the winter of 2001, it has, in its final month in office, issued a rule to maintain a 720 snowmobiles/day limit, after a year in which the Park Service […]
Park Service Proposes First Real Limits on Snowmobiles at Yellowstone Since Guided Tours Provision
November 5, 2008Responding to a September Federal Court ruling that tossed the 3rd Yellowstone Winter Use Plan on the cusp of a new winter season, Park managers have released a proposed interim plan that will, for the first time since the original Clinton-era plan, reduce the actual numbers of snow machines in the Park on most of […]
Third Yellowstone Snowmobile Plan Tossed by Federal Court
September 16, 2008The eternal cycle of Yellowstone Winter Use Plans looks to continue for at least one more round, as the third “final” National Park Service rule governing snowmobile access to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks has been tossed out by a Federal District Court after challenges form a consortium of environmental organizations. DC-based judge Emmet […]