Roots of Protest

I’m writing this letter in response to “Among the Giants” (March 16) about the ancient forests of Humboldt County. The writer goes into much depth about how beautiful the trees are and how nice it is to walk around amid the “primeval” beauty.

However, I don’t think this writer has his priorities straight. He dismisses the Earth First! protest to preserve 60,000 acres of the most ancient of those trees in two sentences about Bonnie Rait getting arrested and how he wouldn’t fit in to the protester ambience.

Let’s get real here. He spends three full pages expounding the beauty of the forest. Yet he can’t even go to a protest.

ARIEL WYCKOFF

Palms