A peek at tomorrow's paper using quotes that didn't make the cut...
“You’re preaching to the choir, Myron,” Powell Mayor Scott Mangold, assuring Powell Valley Recycling secretary Myron Heny that the city wholeheartedly agrees that a garbage transfer station is needed after the Powell landfill closes to municipal solid waste. Future plans for recycling are laid out on the front page.
“The attack has already happened,” Ham Bryan, Sleeping Giant's Executive Director, explaining that he feels little need to lobby Park County commissioners to re-consider giving a liquor license to the ski slope. Bryan said that on the Web, the general public has already voiced their disagreement with the commission's license denial. But that dispute's not what's making headlines in Tuesday's paper -- a delay is, on page one.
“While Yellowstone National Park was created ‘as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people’ and the (National Park Service) has been charged by Congress to ‘provide for the enjoyment’ of the Parks, the 2009 Winter Use Plans systematically exclude thousands of people who would otherwise peaceably enjoy the Parks by snowmobile,” the state attorney general’s office, contending in a civil complaint that the federal government’s winter rules cutting Yellowstone and Grand Teton snowmobile access are “arbitrary and unlawful.” The latest litigation leads the front section.
The second section of the law establishing Yellowstone say in part "That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within said park, and their retention in their natural conditions.
ReplyDeleteIf the secretary of the Interior decides snow mobile use is endangering the park he has the power to do something about it. I do not thimk the law suit will go any where.