We are located in rural America and are able to employ our staff all year round because we are in the snowmobile business. It is common in the recreational business to have seasonal employees. We provide significant income tax revenues to state and federal treasuries. We, snowmobile related small business owners, generate millions of dollars in tax revenues. The sport of snowmobiling has rejuvenated the economies of many rural communities that were devastated by the loss of big businesses.
Rural communities survive because of small businesses, businesses like our snowmobile dealership.
Unfortunately, when the Department of Interior made their theatrical announcement banning snowmobiles in National Parks, they impacted many small businesses. That announcement appears to have been made prematurely, since there has yet to be any deadlines or timetables for implementing this ban. But, that's not what the general public heard. The general public heard what the Department of Interior intended them to hear. That in their opinion, snowmobiles are bad.