"This news is not surprising. Many members of the BlueRibbon Lake Powell PWC Task Force have known that the schedule to complete the required Environment Impact Statement (EIS) could not be met by the September 15th 2002 deadline! What is surprising is that the official announcement came in an update, quietly posted to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Lake Powell) planning website! There was no press release and not much addition information on the ban and the EIS process have been made public.

What the website stated was simply ? Glen Canyon National Recreation Area does not anticipate completing the special regulation and environmental analysis by September 15, 2002. Therefore, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will close personal watercraft use on September 15, 2002 and remain closed to personal watercraft use until a regulation is finalized?

Your immediate question should be what can be done to stop this BAN? The answer is visit the BlueRibbon Coalition website at http://www.sharetrails.org and click on the PWCs A Target Lake Powell Update. The most current information on the access to Lake Powell and the PWC issue is there. At the website you should join the Lake Powell Alert network. As a member of the alert list you will be kept informed on the BAN. You can also fill out a form letter to be forwarded to the Park Service during the EIS comment period. It is very important that we are all a part of the EIS comment period when it is announced!

In addition, you can call the BlueRibbon Office at 1-800-258-3742 and ask for Lori during office hours 9 to 5 mountain daylight time Monday through Friday and request a PWC form letter comment kit and/or request printed copies of the Lake Powell PWC Access updates.

The time is now to act if you want continued PWC access to Lake Powell after September 15 2002. The decision to act is yours! Please visit the website http://www.sharetrails.org today!

Article Comments Up In Canada, people have more sense. (07/03/2002, gsmith) Up in Canada, people might have enough sense to realize that a PWC is indeed a boat. Down here in the 'ol US, personal watercraft are routinely discriminated against without the need to apply logic... Lake Powell (07/01/2002, whipper) This is wrong unless all water-craft that means "boats" too, are no longer permitted to oporate on that lake.I just got certified by the canadian coastgaurd and recieved an operators card.Up here in canada as of sept 15 all water "vessels" 4 meters and less must have this to legaly enjoy our waterways.My point is that the term personal watercraft "pwc" is not a correct term.The term boat or vessel applies to "pwc" the same as uncle hennerys 12 ft alum fish boat with the 9.9 merc on it most people call a boat.There is know way leagly parks or any one else can segragate a class of vessal to a waterway.Highways,ministry of transport regulate some lakes buy putting power restrictions on them or no powerboats at all,and or vessals must have no open exaust.But to descriminate a pwc from a lake and know one else is inpossable to enforce."

-Quoted from www.jetski.com