If you're planning to travel to Yellowstone this summer, enjoy the relative peace and quiet (if such a thing exists in Yellowstone in the summer) while you can. By next year, the campers in the tent next to you might be gabbing on their cell phones. Park officials, according to the AP, are "quietly preparing a plan that could expand wireless towers and antennas as well as TV and radio service in the park." Because the real reason people visit the national parks is to watch "Lost" in their tents.

Tensions are rising inside the National Park Service, the agency that runs America’s icons of the natural world like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, and Big Bend. This week, the former Chief of the United States Park Police weighed in with an editorial on the web site New West in which she says she was fired and humiliated two years ago for warning that the parks were not up to the challenge of ensuring post-9/11 safety.