Putting Institute in the Wilderness

Warren Wilson’s approval of the Nichols Institute court victory (May 31) again demonstrates very well why man’s ignorance and self-serving interests continue to erode the very environment upon which man is as dependent for his survival as is any other animal.

It would, however, be very difficult to explain this interdependence to a man of Wilson’s background, whose only conclusions are drawn from such simplistic observations, based on a meager and inadequate list, as to which animal eats which animal.

Perhaps Wilson would like to accompany me or any other person familiar with Caspers Wilderness Park and its adjoining areas to discover that not only are there just coyotes, spiders, lizards, etc., dependent on and contributing to these hills and canyons but that there are also wonderful oaks, stately sycamores, important and beautiful flowers and shrubs, multitudes of birds, deer, bobcats, and other flora and fauna, too numerous to list here.

When these are displaced, they are gone forever. If the Nichols Institute plan had been displaced, no one would have noticed except a company insensitive to the future of our environment. Now it will be impossible not to notice this terrible disruption in the midst of this vital environment.

PHYLIS R. GORDON

Yorba Linda