Biodiversity Associates

Help Control a Snowmobile Explosion

The Forest Service has started to address the problem of uncontrolled snowmobile use on the Snowy Range section of the Medicine Bow National Forest. But the Forest Service will not protect winter wildlife and quiet recreational opportunities in any meaningful way without support from concerned persons like you. Please send a short message to the Medicine Bow National Forest Supervisor Mary Peterson, asking that she bring balance back to a winter environment knocked off kilter. Listed below is a short set of facts and the Supervisor's mailing and Email Address.

Snowmobile use has recently exploded on the Snowy Range, pushing wildlife and quiet recreationists like cross-country skiers and snow-shoe hikers out of the area, or off the forest entirely.

Snowmobiles travel off-roads throughout the forest, instead of remaining on the nearly 3,000 miles of roads on the Medicine Bow.

The white-tailed ptarmigan is now extinct on the Snowy Range. Scientists believe that snowmobiles are responsible because of the disturbances they create and because they pack down trails through deep snow, which allow predators, like coyotes, to access previously safe areas.

Many quiet, non-motorized recreationists no longer visit the Snowy Range in the winter because of the noise and smell of snowmobiles.
According to the Forest Service, snowmobile use has more than doubled in the last few years on Highway 130, traveling through the Snowy Range.

Real solutions to out-of-control snowmobile use will only come about due to the involvement of people like you. Thank you for your support.

Contact the Med' Bow Forest Supervisor
Mary Peterson
mhpeterson@fs.efd.us
2468 Jackson St.
Laramie WY 82070

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