Still poor, Yellowstone Park winter air quality has improved.
With fewer and cleaner snowmobiles entering the Park, the air isn’t quite as dirty as it was.
Read, Winter air improving at Yellowstone. By Mike Stark. Billings Gazette.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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my cousin’s in-laws own a couple of the snowmobile outfits in west. those fumes get pretty harsh at peak-season – enough to burn your eyes and nostrils just wandering around town.
it’s outrageous what is allowed at that park