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Grand Canyon Asks for Comment on Removing Old Inner-Canyon Phone Wire
Grand Canyon National Park is taking public comments through midnight November 11 on a plan to remove sections of the historic Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, which runs through the inner canyon along the Bright Angel and North Kaibab trails with a spur toward the South Kaibab. Rebuilt by Civilian Conservation Corps crews in 1935 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the line has loose, hanging and fallen wire that endangers helicopters during rescues and can entangle wildlife, the park says. It proposes removing wire where needed and marking what stays, while leaving the historic poles, cross-arms and insulators in place. Comments go through the National Park Service's planning website.
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