Snow and Trail Conditions
View this chapter in “Research Studies Related to Snowmobiling Impacts”. Studies for which full reports are available have links below (blue titles only).
- Minimum Snow Depth Requirements For OSVs: Status Report & Suggested Best Management Practices (2020)
- Historical Snow Water Equivalent and Temperature Data for Oversnow Vehicle Travel Areas in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks(2005)
- Forecasts of 21st Century Snowpack and Implications for Snowmobile and Snowcoach Use in Yellowstone National Park (2016)
- Snowmobile Trail Bump Formation Analysis, Prediction and Modeling (2000)
Other Research Studies
- Air Quality / Emissions
- Economics
- Personal Exposure
- Recreation Conflicts
- Snow and Trail Conditions
- Sound
- Vegetation and Soil/Snow Compaction
- Water Quality – including Snowpack and Snowmelt
- Wildlife – General Wildlife and Nature
- Wildlife – Birds, Bears and Caribou
- Wildlife – Deer, Elk, Moose and Reindeer
- Wildlife – Lynx
- Wildlife – Carnivores, Coyotes, Wolves, Goats, Sheep, Rabbits and Subnivean
- Wildlife – Wolverine