Historians, preservationists, history buffs and military strategists applaud it. Environmentalists and so-called "tree-huggers" abhor it. Perhaps nothing in recent times at the Gettysburg National Military Park (with the possible exception of the demolition of the National Tower a decade ago) has sparked more controversy than the recent tree-cutting. The National Park Service is in the midst of a multi-year project to restore parts of the battlefield to some semblance of their appearance in 1863 when the U.S. Army battled forces from the Confederate States of America on the hills and pastures surrounding Gettysburg. The sounds of chain saws and logging trucks now boom out over fields where cannons and muskets once roared.
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