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An AT&T cell tower developer wants to build a 100-foot cell tower on the edge of a rare desert waterway in rural Arizona, where residents say it would harm endangered wildlife and critical wetland habitats and obstruct the line-of-sight for ancestral Hopi mesa top settlements.
Local residents, including former cultural anthropologist Gillian Goslinga and Billy Harvey, director of a wildlife rehabilitation center, are working to ensure AT&T and Tilson Technology Management choose a more “responsible” placement for its tower — and they think their fight may set a precedent that could help other local communities to prevent similar wireless infrastructure invasions.
Goslinga and Harvey told The Defender they filed a case in 2022 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) alleging Tilson failed to honestly and properly complete a federally mandated environmental review for the project…
