Hang up and experience
The National Parks face yet another environmental threat, the L.A. Times reports: cellphones.
A disturbing trend in Yellowstone National could be repeated in southern Utah's wild gems. Cellular towers have sprouted near Old Faithful and on one of the park's prominent peaks.
Perhaps worse, visitors hoping to commune with Yellowstone's grandeur can't escape insipid cell conversations. Tim Stevens of the National Parks Conservation Association complains:
When people come to Yellowstone, it's one of the most special times in their lives. One of the things that makes it that is the ability to hear the splash of a geyser . . . and not having that sound drowned out by somebody having a conversation with their family back in New Jersey.
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Cell phones in National Parks are a double-edged sword: On the one hand, I don't want to have to hear some insipid teenager blabbing away while I enjoy nature.
On the other hand, it will probably be that very same cell phone that leads to the teen being found when they wander away and get lost in the wilderness.
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