...mostly symbolic defiance of the National Park Service, which had refused to issue a permit for the event. Voyageurs Superintendent Barbara West had refused to issue a permit to the nonprofit snowmobile group that has run the event for years...

...Wildlife Service has notified Voyageurs that its biologists first must sign off on the decision. Late last month, Voyageurs Superintendent Barbara West announced that after a biological study of the issue, no data supported keeping the bays off-limits...

...wolf population at Voyageurs National Park," said Dan Stinnett of the agency's Twin Cities field office. Voyageurs Superintendent Barbara West said she learned of the decision last week. The Park Service closed the bays in 1992 because it...