Wyoming News Briefs

Interior secretary says electric bikes in parks OK

JACKSON (WNE) — The U.S. Secretary of the Interior has made a top-down decision about the use of electric bikes on National Park Service lands, bucking policies that today are set individually by parks.

Going forward, electric bikes, aka e-bikes, will be on an even playing field with human-powered bicycles, according to a policy memorandum that Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed Thursday and gave to the media Friday.

“E-bikes are allowed where traditional bicycles are allowed,” the four-page policy reads. “E-bikes are not allowed where...