To the Editor: All anyone has to do is look around any town, any city, anywhere. If you look closely, you will see the man that hasn't showered, talking to himself, walking blindly. The woman with a baby stroller with no baby, but dealing with a customer in no secrecy, on a beautiful spring day. A mom with a baby in stroller, walking down the middle yellow line of a street, not even a clue that it's dangerous, or the car running a red light sometimes hitting another person, innocent of wrong. [continues 299 words]
To the Editor: Even though I know the devastating pot grows are a product of corrupt government and local apathy because of money, it's not too late for every citizen that cares about salmon, wildlife and human health to take a step back, admit to mistakes and look at the big picture. We can change, we can fight this disease of greed and addiction. Every person counts, every voice can create actions of response and triage to the damage the local growers are doing. It's hard when you see 20,000 reports of abuse in environment yet not enough enforcers to respond. But if we get outside help, anything is possible. Write the president, write to the governor and support any official advocating getting salmon murderers, and human health destroyers, out of our county. Salmon is the life blood of our whole ecosystem. Used to be sacred. To myself it still is. Water is life. Start to believe in the fact that our health is tied to our earths health and we can change our area one parcel at a time. [continues 76 words]
EDITOR: The recent articles about the large corporate pot grows on Indian land seems to disregard one thing ("Tribe scales back on pot farm," Saturday). There is a town - Ukiah - nearby. The water tables are sinking. In Redwood Valley last year some private residents wells were going dry. The land may be sovereign, but the governor declared a state of emergency with regard to water. I don't think sovereign includes any state of emergency exclusions, and, just a guess, but it may be criminal during a California water emergency to deplete the groundwater of an entire town to grow an illegal amount of marijuana. Ukiah [end]
