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Seeing the full issue

The Oct. 25 cover story, 鈥淯ntaming a river: The stakes behind America鈥檚 largest dam removal,鈥� is excellent. I have watched the bear cams in Alaska鈥檚 Katmai National Park on explore.org for four years, and have learned ancillary information about salmon runs on the West Coast. Thanks to your article, I have a better understanding of the former and current salmon runs on the Klamath River, the dams, and the history of the Indigenous people. I live in Southern California, and I am always interested in environmental and cultural issues on the West Coast. Thank you for your well-researched writing.

Kim Lyon
San Diego

Applying Nuremberg lessons

I enjoyed your Oct. 18 Upfront column, 鈥淟essons from Nuremberg, 75 years on.鈥� Being a first-generation Arab American, I was wondering about the plight of the Palestinians, which is a horrific example of how we sometimes refuse to learn from history. Every two or three years they are bombed to the Stone Age 鈥� men, women, children, hospitals, schools, you name it.

It鈥檚 much like a holocaust, but we are not allowed to use that word. To me, it shows that we don鈥檛 learn from the lessons of man鈥檚 inhumanity to man. In the case of Gaza, it rarely gets the coverage it deserves, and we are told very little about this atrocity.聽

Carl & Deanna Karoub
Northville, Michigan

No time left for NIMBYism

The NIMBYism seen in the Oct. 19 Daily article 鈥淪olar panels make money in rural America. They don鈥檛 always make friends.鈥� is not new. It peaked 10 years ago off Cape Cod with a proposed offshore wind farm. 聽

One thing that has changed are the dire warnings related to climate change, which were included in a report released this summer by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. One statement in the report stands out: 鈥淗uman-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region around the globe.鈥澛�

Talk to the folks who live on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and they can tell tales of how much stronger the hurricanes are. Land used for solar farms can also be productive in agriculture. A report by the United States Department of Agriculture titled 鈥淪olar Energy Use in U.S. Agriculture鈥� outlines how vegetables, bee hives, and sheep can co-exist on a solar farm.

Bottom line: We all must do our part fighting climate change. The cost of inaction keeps mounting.

Earle Mitchell
Springfield, Virginia

Hope for nature

In response to the Oct. 18 Home Forum essay, 鈥淎n autumn harvest of joy 鈥� and apples,鈥� I am delighted with the computer generation鈥檚 zeal for nature 鈥� and apple orchards. May they enlighten us all and help us to transition to a more caring attitude toward our lovely planet home.

I too dream of green and greener fields. I too long for fruit I pick myself. I grew up in upstate New York where we had strawberry festivals and lilac festivals celebrating the joys of nature. Now I live in Southern California where we pray for rain so desperately. To watch as trees fade to brown before my eyes is heartbreaking. I watch leaves dropping not because the winter is coming but because they thirsted for a drink and got none. How sad to see Golden California now browning in the ever-present sunlight and drought.

Shirley Prescott
Agoura Hills, California