Steven Holt: “We are simply trying to make the point that Yellowstone National Park is a unique environment, it is particularly…”

“We are simply trying to make the point that Yellowstone National Park is a unique environment, it is particularly fragile in the winter, it is a precious national treasure that deserves an extra level of protection. Now, my colleagues want to substitute their own judgment for the ones who have taken the measurements, the ones who have the data. The Environmental Protection Agency said that the original National Park Service study was more thorough than anything they had seen on a similar subject; and the conclusion was, even considering the new technology, even considering the four-stroke engines, that the way to protect Yellowstone Park was to phase out snowmobiles, two-stroke engines, four-stroke engines, all of them. Maybe my colleagues think that these machines, nearly 100,000 of them that go into the park, will not hurt anything. But that is not what the studies show.”