NPS may remove snowmobile trail. (National Park Service)(Voyageurs National Park) (NPCA News)(National Parks and Conservation Assn)

National Parks, March, 1994 by O'Connell, Kim A.

The National Park Service may remove a controversial snowmobile trail from Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota but is facing opposition.

In 1990, NPCA, the Voyageurs Region National Park Association, and other groups filed suit against the Department of the Interior. It had proposed building a snowmobile trail across the park's 100,000-acre Kabetogama Peninsula, a potential wilderness area. Park Service policy prohibits motorized use of wilderness areas or areas being considered as wilderness.

Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), along with Minnesota House Speaker-Designate Irv Anderson and others, met with Park Service Director Roger Kennedy on February 3 to oppose removal of the traff. "Voyageurs National Park was always intended as a multi-use...

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