Plethora of Everything

Hello Mayor Fischer,     I commend you on your efforts to maintain and increase Louisville's diminishing tree canopy.          Over the past two weeks I've witnessed 3 old growth trees being cut down, two in my mother's neighborhood of Schnitzelburg and one on my own street, Sherry Rd, not far from U of L. We need trees to live, literally.     I need not inform you of their monetary, health, and aesthetic value, for you are well-informed on these issues, in great part thanks to the commissions you've tasked with surveying the value of our city's tree canopy over the past few years.       Disturbing information from the tree company workers on my street:        "To be in compliance with the city's wheel-chair-access-on-sidewalks laws." was t he reason this huge, beautiful tree on my street was cut down.     A tree that took more than 100 years to grow to its impressive, aboundi...

Dr. Bergin,     I’ve felt honored to be a member of African Wildlife Foundation over the years, until recently.     Since a couple of the last great tuskers have been poached, within days of each other, I’ve felt disillusioned with AWF. How can a group, that’s primary focus is the preservation of African wildlife, that brings in more than $30 million dollars a year not do more to protect the world’s largest land mammal?     I think of African Elephants daily, several times a day. The nagging feeling that I must do more to somehow help protect this species won’t let me be. I’ve be an environmental and animal welfare advocate since childhood. Knowing that approximately 100 elephants per day are being slaughtered is horrifying and unacceptable.     I know that you, Dr. Bergin, agree with everything I’m saying.     I know that as you’re reading this you must be thinking, “Boy is her anger ever misplaced?!”     A...