On Monday, Aug. 31, friends and I were walking trails in Chris Park. We heard loud motor noises and realized they were from large machinery. When we came around the next bend, we saw the bulldozers – and the gashes in the sides of the mountains.
A friend told me that this was from a land trade made by the Forest Service. The bare mountainsides were going to be developed into a golf course. What a sad sight and what an incongruous use of our National Forest.
What was the Forest Service thinking? I thought its mission was to protect our forests, our national irreplaceable treasure.
Marianne “Spence” Pearlman
Durango
