Preservationists fear power lines coming to national parks

Monday, July 16, 2007

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Apple trees have been planted, wood fences restored and power lines buried in recent years to transform the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg to the way it looked when Union and Confederate forces clashed on farmers' fields in 1863.

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