Reply #22: Oh, I thought they were going to turn it into condo developments.

[Cleita]

If you ever worked in a National Park or Forest, you know that there is an upside to cell phones in an emergency. Either you have to use radios or phones, and that can be the difference between life and death if there is an accident or if a visitor is attacked by a wild animal.

Also, medical evacuation ambulance helicopters are widely used in the forested and remote areas of the northwest to get patients to hospitals that are often more than a hundred miles away. They are disruptive too for a little while until they finish their task, but throwing away available technology to save lives both human and animal doesn't make sense to me.

I'm sure rules on cell phone usage can be implemented so that it doesn't interfere with the tranquility visitors seek. I would get rid of the snowmobiles though, totally unnecessary except for rescue personnel.