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That's true. Candido and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, decent folk down on their luck, huddle in a makeshift camp in the canyon and climb out every morning to find work at a labor exchange. But the sight of hungry Mexicans spooks Kyra's clients, and she sees to it that the exchange is shut. Delaney's liberal beliefs crumble, and he votes with other residents to build a wall, with a gate, around their development. The author, mistrusting his skill and the reader's acuteness, relentlessly flashes irony alerts. Candido gets work constructing the wall, knowing well...
...botches a good theme: the shuddering distaste of California's patio-living Anglos for the Mexican illegals who perform the state's stoop labor. His pale hero is Delaney, a nature writer who has moved with his wife Kyra, a real estate shark, to a housing development above Topanga Canyon. Delaney is not just politically correct, he's politically exquisite, but when a Mexican man, Candido, blunders in front of his white Acura on a canyon road, his reaction is angry revulsion: the wounded wet back, to whom he gives a $20 bill, is an infiltrator...
...FIVE-YEAR RESIDENT OF THE GRAND Canyon, I would have found your story "Crunch Time at the Canyon" [Environment, July 3] almost laughable if it weren't for the distortions that will hurt our tourism-based economy and probably cost some locals their jobs. The people who are trying to scare visitors away from their national parks are the same ones who told us that if we shut down our logging, mining and ranching, we would benefit from tourism. The environmental alite are spreading stories designed to keep average Americans out of their playgrounds this summer. Perhaps people should show...
EVERYONE SEEMS TO AGREE THAT REDUCED budgets, overflow crowds concentrated in small pockets and old facilities are having a significant impact on visitors to the national parks, particularly the Grand Canyon. However, your report spoke of air tours of the area as being part of the problem. We think they are part of the solution. Last year more than 2 million people visited national parks and other federal lands by air. More than 40% took flights over the Grand Canyon. These visitors left no footprints and no debris behind. They simply flew over, enjoyed and left the area without touching...
...Federal Aviation Administration established a special federal air regulation to help restore the "natural quiet" to the Grand Canyon. This was done with the support of the air-tour industry. The new requirements confine aircraft to strictly defined and narrow flight corridors. Today 92% of park visitors report that they are not adversely affected by aircraft sound in the Grand Canyon, and backcountry park visitors report seeing or hearing only one or two aircraft a day. The contention that visitors can't enjoy the park because of the "noisy aerial onslaught" is without factual basis. DAN ANDERSON, President National...