Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility also has spent years suing the Federal Aviation Administration and National Park Service over the two agencies’ failure to produce plans for managing air tourism in parks that see more than 50 overflights a year.
Teton park historically has been excluded from the group that courts have ordered to produce air tourism plans. Following a heated controversy over helicopter tours in the late 1990s — which spawned the Alliance’s “Heli No!” bumper stickers — U.S. Sen. Craig Thomas, a Wyoming Republican, drafted a bill to ban all scenic flights over Teton park, but it never became law.
