Editorial: Cell tower fight doesn’t meet reality
June 24, 2010 at 2:12 am in Lake County News-Chronicle
If you’ve ever entered or exited the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness near Ely, or even at the end of the Gunflint Trail, you know how specious an argument the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness makes when it says a cell tower in Fall lake Township will wreck the experience there. Continue Reading
Playing the “sensible progress” card? Whats next…”Drill baby drill”.
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Like it or not, the 21st century comes to the wilderness, too. The tower serves the local community outside the wilderness. These people deserve the same amenities of this century as the protesting residents of the greater metropolitan area of this state. The tower won’t even be visible to an observer in the forest, a few short miles from the tower site. Just how virginal is our wilderness, with its well-beaten trails and developed campsites?
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