Yellowstone and the Snowmobile: Locking Horns over National Park Use

by Michael J. Yochim

Book Overview

It is the world's best-known national park, with a controversy that no amount of snow can bury. Rosy-cheeked snowmobilers extol the glories of riding through a winter wonderland, while environmentalists decry the noise, the air pollution, and the harm to wildlife. There seems to be no room for compromise.

In this first book-length study of winter use in any national park, Michael Yochim examines the longstanding conflict between the National...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070061642X
• ISBN13: 9780700616428
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"