Yellowstone Needs Update to Communications Facilities

The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to improve telecommunication services in developed areas of Yellowstone National Park. The proposal would also give the park the opportunity to remove antiquated telecommunication systems currently on mountain tops and from the backcountry as underground fiber within the road corridor becomes operational. If approved, the proposal would allow for the installation of fiber-optic cable along 187 miles of park roads, appropriate equipment to be used to install the conduit underground within the existing road corridor, immediately adjacent to and/or directly into the roadbed, temporary and localized traffic restrictions and speed reductions in work areas from April until early November for three consecutive years, and the removal of five microwave radio reflectors that were installed in the park’s backcountry around 1980. Construction is to begin as early as 2021.




 
 

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