To the editor: Your editorial urging the enlargement of the San Gabriel Mountains Nationwide Monument ignores your individual current reporting. On Aug. 6, you revealed an editorial that acknowledged: “The photographs of piles of trash left by guests to the East Fork of the San Gabriel River within the Angeles Nationwide Forest within the L.A. Instances final week had been horrifying.”
Again in 2014, President Obama was in Los Angeles County to announce the formation of the monument encompassing many of the San Gabriel Mountains. After a photo-op and a press launch, he left to do what he had actually come to California for: fundraising from rich donors.
No cash was licensed to enhance the mountains. Since then, situations proceed to worsen, and the federal authorities has executed little or no.
Increasing the footprint of the monument does nothing to unravel its issues. It’s simply lip-service supplied to a donor class that has by no means walked the paths to Mt. Baldy or Mt. Wilson.
We don’t want declarations and smiling photographs. We want outcomes — specifically, the outcomes promised almost a decade in the past which have but to be delivered.
Robert Helbing, Monrovia
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To the editor: Certain, let’s get extra acreage within the San Gabriel Mountains Nationwide Monument, however not with the U.S. Forest Service operating it. Underneath that company, the monument is overrun with trash every summer time, and graffiti stays on rocks, indicators, bushes — you title it — for years.
The overwhelming trash downside is why the San Gabriel Mountains joined journey journal Fodor’s “No Record 2024,” which inspires vacationers to keep away from sure locations across the globe.
Jim Burns, San Gabriel
