Cover, Feb. 17: “Adoptee Nation”
Potential Problems
The passport office could have kept my fake birth certificate and denied me a passport; then where would I be?
Lara Trace Hentz
SFReporter.com
Good Enough to Fight
I remember a news article where a teenage girl presented her Puerto Rican birth certificate in order to get a driver's license in Tennessee. The DMV told her it was fake and kept it, until her father raised a stink. She wasn't even adopted.
Gaye Tannenbaum
SFReporter.com
News, Feb. 17: “Monumental?”
Likely to Happen
Obama is likely to declare it a monument. He's leaving in a year and this is one of the few ways areas like La Bajada can be protecting without involving a hopeless impotent Congress. This would be the 15th national monument in New Mexico, which would tie it with California for second place.
Nick Morrell
Port Washington, WI
Ranching Not OK
Ranching is actually terrible for the land. I hope our representatives don't let ranchers' private interest keep this from becoming protected land.
Anjali Paige Davidson
via Facebook
Blue Corn, Feb. 10: “Shut Your Big Trap”
Exported Death
I am a wildlife bio working a job in eastern Utah. I did some homework and the vast majority of pelts are exported to Asia and the middle east. Great huh? We are killing our wildlife so a wealthy woman/man in another country has a status symbol to drape over her/his shoulders. Gag. It is 2016. Time to put traps on public lands onto a back page.
Valerie Dobrich
Monticello, Utah
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