Snowmobile Ban

Your July 4 editorial on the Yellowstone Park snowmobile decision, “Protect a Precious Place,” was insulting. The “public” support for the ban came from a fairly small cadre of tax-sheltered, nonprofit special-interest groups that spent millions of dollars in foundation grants on a sophisticated political lobbying effort--focused not on the people who would be most affected by the ban but on urban areas safely insulated from the economic and social upheaval such a ban will cause.

I would like to remind The Times that America is a representative republic. As Americans, the folks who have built their communities, lives and families around Yellowstone Park still have rights, rights that deserve respect. Kindly show some.

Dave Skinner

Whitefish, Mont.