NPS approves 100-foot cell tower in Yellowstone
July 23, 2013 05:47 PM EST | 
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The National Park Service has decided that Verizon Wireless can build a 100-foot tall cell tower near Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone National Park.
A permit clearing the way for construction of the new cell tower was recently approved by John Wessels, the director of the Park Service Intermountain Region.
Cell phone service originating from inside Yellowstone is currently limited to the Mammoth, Old Faithful, Canyon, Tower-Roosevelt and Grant developed areas.
The new cell tower will cover the developed area on the north side of Yellowstone Lake.
The Park Service says the tower won't be visible from the nearby Lake Hotel, Fishing Bridge, Lake Lodge Historic Districts as well as area hiking trails.
How sad and not just for the humans, but all the creatures and plants. Also one less place to go to feel better.
ReplyDeleteThe only way to stop the madness is educate the users. I have a dream that one bright day the people will finally reject microwave devices and wireless broadband blanketing civilizations. Then the towers will finally stand as useless monuments to human stupidity and greed. They will become the memorials to the radiofrequency and microwave wounded and dead. And the living will leave flowers and messages at their bases, the sites of atrocities.