Tejon Ranch Proposal Ruffles Some Feathers

Re “Developer Wants to Ease Condor Rules,” July 13: The proposed construction is for 23,000 homes, a warehouse park and a mountain resort community.

Where does this madness end?

Although the vast ranch covers 270,000 acres, it is considered a prized wildlife habitat and a favorite feeding and resting spot for California condors. There is absolutely no justification for the safety of condors being equated with a developer’s planned mountain resort community.

Longtime, intense, costly effort has gone toward protecting the endangered bird. The condor is nature excelling; building a needless mountain resort in a pristine wilderness is a crime against humanity.

Larry Crews

San Diego

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As a longtime resident of the San Joaquin Valley, I am continually dismayed and frustrated at having to describe “what used to be here”: the orange orchards, the almond groves, the potato fields, the ranchland.

Every time another developer eyes a fertile piece of land, I know it will soon be covered with cement, structures and cars and become “what used to be here.”

I was sad at first news of the development of the Tejon Ranch but had no idea of the extent of the project. I cannot believe Californians as a whole will allow the California condor to be relegated to the category of “what used to be here.”

I have to believe Californians can come together to stop the overdevelopment of what is left of our beautiful state so it does not become “what used to be here.”

Kathy Blain

Bakersfield