U.S. Department of the Interior

Office of the Assistant Secretary

For Immediate Release: April 25, 2000

Gerry Gaumer 202/208-4993
John Wright 202/208-6416

*** Media Advisory ***

Interior Department to Announce Measures to Halt
Escalating Recreational Snowmobile Use in National Parks

Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Donald J. Barry, accompanied by National Park Service Deputy Director, Denis Galvin will hold a news briefing to discuss and detail measures that the National Park Service will take to halt the escalating recreational use of snowmobiles in units of the National Park System. The briefing will be held 11 a.m., Thursday, April 27, 2000, in Room 7000, at the Department of the Interior.

    Who: Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Donald J. Barry and
    Deputy Director for the National Park Service, Denis Galvin
    What: News briefings to announce measures to halt recreational use of snowmobiles
    in the National Parks
    When: Thursday, April 27, 2000, at 11 a.m.
    Where: U.S. Department of the Interior
    1849 C Street, NW, Room 7000
    Washington, D.C. 20240

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