An organization that brought suit against the National Park Service over air tours is saying the Park Service hasn’t done enough to curb the flights under its new plans.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility last month filed a motion in federal court to compel the Park Service to complete environmental analysis of air tour plans, as required by law, the organization said.
Glacier National Park, for example, released an air tour management plan in September that would allow existing air tour business to continue to fly over the park, but if the business changed hands or went out the business, those flights would be expunged from the plan.
PEER, in its latest motion, says such a plan is contrary to federal law, since the tours were allowed without any sort of environmental review in the first place.
