To protect wildlife, Yellowstone must ban snowcoaches as well as snowmobiles.

And I'm going to ban snowmobiles in every state forest.

The Clinton administration proposed banning snowmobiles; the Bush administration proposed a limit of 1,000 a day.

But there are other compelling reasons to ban snowmobiles.

In July, a number of Republican congressmen crossed party lines to ban snowmobiles in the park by a House vote of 211 to 209.

To one hard-line wing of the environmental movement, the best way to preserve Yellowstone's winter solitude is to ban snowmobiles.

Another would restrict the Secretary of Interior's authority to ban snowmobiles from national parks.

An industry suit is almost certain to be the strategy of choice in the case of a rule banning snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park.

The group has been active in the battles to ban snowmobiles and personal water craft from national parks.

Yellowstone is studying a plan to ban snowmobiles in the park beginning in 2002.