Donald Hodel’s Desert Tour
This letter is in response to the article “Hodel Ends 3-Day Desert Tour, Sees No Ecological Damage” (Part I, June 22).
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management arranged quite a tour of our California desert for Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel--complete with pet tortoises transported into the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Desert Tortoise Natural Preserve--for his inspection. His examination of these pet tortoises is representative of his tour for evidence of desert environmental damage brought about by human activity and exploits. The processes involved in credible studies of man-made effects on the environment of desert lands cannot be accomplished in 3-day “tours.”
WILLIAM B. COONEY
Long Beach
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