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"we also should include, you know, the areas where the cell towers already exist on Forest Service land outside of— so the top of Lindenberg Peak and the top of Crystal Mountain."

we also should include, you know, the areas where the cell towers already exist on Forest Service land outside of— so the top of Lindenberg Peak and the top of Crystal Mountain.
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May 12, 2026

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So you start going, trying to shoot through a whole bunch of trees, you start really degrading your signal. So they're going to want to be up somewhere where they can get— or they got to put a taller tower in. So, you know, I think it'd be better to encourage. But the shooting range we could include, I don't have a problem with that. And like I said, we also should include, you know, the areas where the cell towers already exist on Forest Service land outside of— so the top of Lindenberg Peak and the top of Crystal Mountain.

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