Dressed Up As Trees, Cellular Towers Stir Debate

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) – Wireless communications companies have erected several cell towers dressed up as evergreen trees along a highway in the Sierra Nevada foothills under El Dorado County’s strict design guidelines. But some residents are pushing back as new cell towers are proposed for areas deeper in the wilderness.
At least six highway-area “mono-pines” — cell towers dressed as faux trees — have been erected along Highway 50 but residents are org