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"The call of the wild?
Ah, the sounds of Yellowstone: the rush of a snow-fed mountain stream; the rustle of a breeze through a stand of lodgepole; the distant call of a loon, a coyote or a wolf.
And the ring of the cell phone.
The National Park Service isn´t obligated to provide a wireless experience — so it should stop scarring the landscape of the nation´s most beautiful places with unsightly cell phone towers.
A government employees´ group is giving the feds some much-deserved static over a 100-foot cell phone tower overlooking Old Faithful. Yellowstone National Park has five cell towers and is one of at least 15 national park units with the towers.
Enough already. Some places are supposed to be beyond cell phone range — that´s part of the appeal.
Granted, this isn´t a black-and-white issue. Park Service officials say cell phones help rangers do their jobs and can allow visitors to get help in an emergency. And it´s not the park rangers´ job to crack down on the use of a technology just because it´s annoying — although we reserve the right to roll our eyes if we overhear some yahoo phoning friends back home as Old Faithful´s about to erupt.
There´s a place to draw the line: the park boundaries. No more towers in the parks."
What do you guys think?
Ah, the sounds of Yellowstone: the rush of a snow-fed mountain stream; the rustle of a breeze through a stand of lodgepole; the distant call of a loon, a coyote or a wolf.
And the ring of the cell phone.
The National Park Service isn´t obligated to provide a wireless experience — so it should stop scarring the landscape of the nation´s most beautiful places with unsightly cell phone towers.
A government employees´ group is giving the feds some much-deserved static over a 100-foot cell phone tower overlooking Old Faithful. Yellowstone National Park has five cell towers and is one of at least 15 national park units with the towers.
Enough already. Some places are supposed to be beyond cell phone range — that´s part of the appeal.
Granted, this isn´t a black-and-white issue. Park Service officials say cell phones help rangers do their jobs and can allow visitors to get help in an emergency. And it´s not the park rangers´ job to crack down on the use of a technology just because it´s annoying — although we reserve the right to roll our eyes if we overhear some yahoo phoning friends back home as Old Faithful´s about to erupt.
There´s a place to draw the line: the park boundaries. No more towers in the parks."
What do you guys think?
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