Glendale-Area Development
* Many years ago, in the hills above Glendale, the lushest, densest and most magnificent forest of ancient live oak trees in California was completely cut down in the name of progress in order to construct a new hillside housing development. Not a single one of those venerable, centuries-old oak trees was left standing, and today there is no evidence that this magnificent forest ever existed where upper Fern Lane now passes beneath the No. 2 Glendale Freeway.
And now the ever-greedy developers are at it again and want to fill in the rest of the canyons between Fern Lane and Verdugo Hills Hospital with still more hillside housing on flat lots carved out of our lovely mountains.
When are we ever going to learn to protect the natural beauty that nature has bestowed upon us?
CHARLES A. BAUSBACK
La Crescenta
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