Opinion: Public lands being neglected

To the community,

All ecological conflicts are over space. Whose is it? What can or will be done with space? In the Tahoe basin we have creatures great and small. There are bears and mountain cottontails (three reside in my yard). And of course there’s man who wants the basin’s space to use for this and that and other things.

And there is the Forest Service ad the CTC. Government agencies that own land in the basin. They own many lots in the city of South Lake Tahoe. What do the agencies do with the land? Nothing except let the grass and weeds grow. And now is the season for fire. And the agencies will not make their property safe from fire. Especially the Forest Service.

Bill Crawford

Why the neglect? Why allow the overgrown space be a threat to life great and small? There has been a house fire across the street from my house and trees on a CTC lot next to the house fire caught fire. The city fire department (three engines) put the fire out.

We were lucky then. But the next time, who knows?

Bill Crawford, South Lake Tahoe