Dave Thibodeau of Ska Brewing is to be commended for the opinion piece he wrote for the Herald (Aug. 19) regarding national monuments.
These open spaces are a public asset that once lost, can never be recovered.
Recently President Trump charged his interior secretary to survey all national monuments and other public open areas with the view to reducing some in size, or even eliminating the designation of these areas.
This action can only be interpreted as an attempt to make good on a campaign promise to further encourage development in these public places.
President Trump is a product of New York City. He is used to concrete, steel and city living. He likes the teeming, crowded city lifestyle.
President Trump has also voiced his opinion lately that he “mourns” the loss of the concrete and sculptured statues and monuments that might be removed in some southern states.
Mourning the loss of man made objects and monuments, and on the other hand wanting to eliminate nature’s own monuments, is pure hypocrisy.
Eric Greene
Durango
