Tree Butchers

I’m glad there’s a bounty on the heads of those renegade tree butchers (“Illicit Tree Trimmers Strike Near Billboards,” Aug. 21). It’s not enough that we are deluged daily with vast amounts of unsolicited and unwanted advertising through television, radio, magazines, newspapers and junk mail. Now our city vista is a strident cacophony of competing images vying for our attention. Heaven forbid that a tree should intrude into this chaotic mix of ads, slogans, colors and words.

It’s time to rethink the policies that allow this tyranny of commercialism at the expense of beauty and serenity.

Lorilyn Hart

Los Angeles