Call of the wild? Environmentalists livid over cellphone plan for national park
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Environment | The Guardian on (#2S2TW)
The famous Mount Rainier has prepared an environmental assessment to allow Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T to extend coverage, but some aren't happy about it
They already paved Paradise and put up a parking lot. Now the famous site on the south slope of Mount Rainier National Park's 14,410ft-tall volcano could be wired for cellular service.
The park, which encompasses 230,000 acres of the Cascades mountain range in Washington state, has prepared an environmental assessment for a proposal to allow Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T to affix a wireless antenna to the park's Jackson visitor center.