Dear HCN:
Your article on firewood
cutting in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest (HCN, 12/25/95)
correctly states that the Mexican spotted owl has only been found
in one remote area of the forest. If we are to protect habitat for
species that are not there, let’s start at the beginning: Protect
the fragile dinosaur habitat.
The
environmentalists in the story are the same people who refused to
comment about the Rainbow Family gathering of 18,000 which occurred
last summer on the Tres Piedras District of the Carson. Sam Hitt
called the gathering a “local” problem in one news article. If
18,000 people do not pose a problem for spotted owl habitat, then
how can people gathering mostly dead and down wood for basic
survival be a major problem?
The
environmentalists delivered wood to needy people. Where did they
get the wood from? What species did they disturb? Perhaps the
solution is for environmentalists to personally pay for alternative
forms of heat.
Randy
Schofield
Tres Piedras, New
Mexico
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Let’s get real in New Mexico.
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