INN Member
The easiest way to explore RV-friendly National Park campgrounds.
Here’s the definitive guide to National Park System campgrounds where RVers can park their rigs.
Our app is packed with RVing- specific details on more than 250 campgrounds in more than 70 national parks.
You’ll also find stories about RVing in the parks, tips helpful if you’ve just recently become an RVer, and useful planning suggestions.
Comments
This is ridiculous. The money they will use for this initiative could be better spent helping the bison and elk herd.
If the money from that were spent "helping" the bison and elk herds the way they've been "helping" the bison herds in the past winters - with all the slaughter; then no thank you.
However, yes, this is completely ridiculous - from the point of view of direct public involvement in the process but most especially in what they're doing in bombarding Yellowstone to keep this pass open to a few privileged people during winter.
Jim Macdonald
The Magic of Yellowstone
Yellowstone Newspaper
Jim's Eclectic World
Man, Over 8,000 per smowmobiler. In todays society that is an incredible waste. I am glad I stopped machining a few years ago. I couldn'd see my pleasure ruining the future of others. Stop this maddness.
Kurt took some flack for fingering Cheney on this decision (see this); now the Associated Press is fingering Bush and Cheney as getting involved.
Kurt, are you writing about this? Very cool that someone is following up on what seemed to be a plausible conjecture given the players involved and how this decision was reversed.
Jim Macdonald
The Magic of Yellowstone
Yellowstone Newspaper
Jim's Eclectic World
Ok, so how do they come up with almost 4 million in costs. In the past it's only ever cost about $300,000 to keep the pass open??? Interesting.
Irregardless of the actual costs to keep this route open for winter travel, it's a shame that much or all of a badly needed budget increase for the park will be diverted to this one project.
Here's a key to the bottom line: A 2008 Wyoming travel guide has a full page color ad on the back cover. The "headline" for the ad reads, "Cody has a nice city park. It's called Yellowstone."
It's all well and good for local communities to receive economic benefits from the spending by visitors to nearby national parks, but when local economic benefits become the driving force for decisions on park operations, park resources and values often suffer.
YeeeeeeeHawwwwwwww!!
Gettin' my sled ready!
By the way, following up on Cheney's involvement, Cheney admits himself that he was involved. See this interview from this weekend: http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2008/12/28/news/wyoming/bbaf7b...
Jim Macdonald
The Magic of Yellowstone
Yellowstone Newspaper
Jim's Eclectic World