Naming Angeles National Forest
Has the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors nothing better to do than figure out a new way to waste taxpayers’ money and perpetrate a travesty as well? I’m speaking of Supervisor Pete Schabarum’s motion, unanimously approved by the supervisors, to change the name of the Angeles National Forest to Reagan National Forest. What a revolting idea!
The supervisors would name a national forest for a man who has proclaimed, “When you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all,” a man who has named James Watt and then Donald Hodel as Interior secretary, for a man who has opened up national parks and other public lands to private companies for logging, strip mining, geothermal activity, oil and gas exploration and after a 13-year ban because of its toxicity (with no known antidote) sanctioned the use of the lethal compound 1080, proven killer of many bald eagles, other raptors and many non-target animals as well as the coyotes for which it was intended.
MILDRED E. KOON
San Diego
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