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Judge bans snowmobiles to protect endangered caribou in northern Idaho

Associated Press — Sept. 27, 2006

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

SPOKANE, Wash. — A judge has declared nearly 470 square miles of national forest land in northern Idaho off-limits to snowmobiles in an effort to save the last mountain caribou herd in the contiguous 48 states. U.S. District Judge Robert H. Whaley, in a ruling Friday, banned the vehicles throughout a caribou recovery zone in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests until the U.S. Forest Service develops a winter recreation strategy taking into account the impact of the loud, exhaust-spewing d ...

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