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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Preserve Caldera For Benefit of All
What are they thinking: fishing ponds, K-Bob's and auberge resorts?
The board of the Valles Caldera National Preserve has lost its direction and its "collective mind."
A K-Bob's restaurant, fishing ponds or a luxury Encantado — like Santa Fe's Auberge resort — are not the financial answer to the preserve's future. The board needs to listen to its own scientists; or better yet spend a day walking along the Rio San Antonio or listening to the elk bugle to better understand this precious landscape that they have been given the privilege to manage.
They also need to remember that the Valles Caldera National Preserve was purchased by the United States government "for the people" and not just for those who can afford $5,000 elk hunts and $400-a-night hotel rooms.
Janie Miller
Santa Fe
Will Somalian Pirate Face Prosecution?
With regard to the Obama administration's policy of declaring a practice illegal but refusing to prosecute those who did it, I expect this to be applied with an even hand.
President Barack Obama has called torture illegal and outlawed its future use. But he refuses to prosecute those who practiced it in the past.
Therefore I assume we will release the surviving Somali who pirated an American freighter and took its captain hostage — without prosecution or penalty.
Adele E. Zimmermann
Embudo
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