Editor: Mile High Radio Club, celebrating 25 years of Community Service and providing emergency communications, appreciates the following organizations and individuals for their kind contributions in support of our efforts within the San Jacinto Mountains: Idyllwild Community Fund, Pine Cove Property Owners Association, Idyllwild Rotary, Idyllwild Rotary Ann’s, Jazz in the Pines, Pine Cove Water…
Editor: I appreciate the grand jurors for what might seem a thankless job. You have dedicated many hundreds of hours over years of service as an unbiased and objective jury of our peers to help better our community’s fire and emergency medical services within the Idyllwild Fire Protection District and surrounding agencies. To better…
Editor: The recent article by J.P. Crumrine in the Town Crier accurately captures the primary ideas of my recent talk on Idyllwild’s fire crisis. Citizens of Idyllwild must realize that nature, combined with fire suppression, are driving the community to fire disaster. Plants reproduce, grow and accumulate energy; plants uptake water until soils desiccate by…
Editor: I want to publicly take note of the very quick response of Waste Management Inc. to the problem of the overlarge pile at the transfer station. When concern was expressed about the dangerous size of the pile, they acted immediately to get the pile down to a safe size. We appreciate their being so…
Editor: The Center for Biological Diversity once had offices in Idyllwild. This firm of attorneys was formed to file lawsuits following the passage of the Endangered Species Act. They hire young environmentalists who are fired up to believe fires cause species endangerment. These people support the efforts of the CBD and other law firms that…
Editor: After working as a volunteer with one of the organizations that helps with the Fourth of July parade for many years, I would like to pass along some unofficial suggestions that may help some of you enjoy the holiday even more. 1. If you live in Fern Valley, plan to use Lodge and South…
Editor: Dr. Minnich’s ideas have been rejected by both the scientific and firefighting communities for more than a decade now. His comparison between Southern California and Baja is without merit. The two regions are radically different and are not comparable. Large fires have always been a part of the California landscape. For example, the 1889…
Editor: I read Dr. Richard Minnich’s article in the June 12 Town Crier and agree completely with him. However, when the lumbermen came through early in the last century, they took almost everything, leaving the land to grow back to brush piles and thickets of small, overcrowded trees, then 100 years of fire suppression led…
Editor: What a delight to read the article about Daniel Rondeau, the new vicar at St. Hugh’s. I wanted to add some personal comments about Father Dan. Before his forced retirement due to illness, Dan was the beloved associate rector at St. Margaret’s in Palm Desert, and in his pastoral care role, had ministered to…
Editor: In the article about the forest being too dense, the recommendation was to trim existing trees up 15 to 30 feet and remove the young ones. If I trimmed my older trees up that high, I would no longer receive their shade, and my home, soil, plants and area temperature would be hotter, causing…
