Dear HCN,
Thank you for an
outstanding Yellowstone issue (HCN, 9/15/97). Ecologist Charles
Kay’s opinion alone was worth the price of a year’s
subscription.
I’m an ex-park ranger with years of
sad experience with the fundamentalism that has taken over the
environmental movement. Kay is justified in stating that
“Environmentalists believe that North America was a Garden of Eden,
untouched by the hand of man until 1492.”
We
ecologists who have allowed the Bambi true believers to take over
the political process and speak for us are as guilty as the
Republicans who let the Christian Coalition take over their party.
The crucial question of Yellowstone is how to take back the
leadership from fundamentalists. The credibility of the
environmental movement is at
stake.
Eric
Burr
Mazama,
Washington
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Get the fundamentalists out of Yellowstone.
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