Your article on the invasive Tasmanian blue gum on the California coast was well-written and carefully researched (“Beauty or Beast?” HCN, 12/23/13). However, it fell into a common journalistic trap: “A says this; on the other hand, B says this.” This journalistic “fairness” doesn’t illuminate the subject. I am smitten by the genus Eucalyptus. I traveled to Australia in […]
Jake Sigg
Posted inOctober 22, 2001: Healing the Gila
Sharper than a serpent’s tooth
Dear HCN, I have been on a crusade to stamp out redundancies and the use of the plural when referring to the Sierra Nevada, which means Snowy Range. It is just plain Sierra or Sierra Nevada, not Sierras or Sierra Nevadas, Sierra Nevada Mountains, or Sierra Nevada Range. Your Aug. 27 issue did get it […]