To the editor: As a lot as I really like the fantastic thing about the flowers seen on this newest superbloom, I really feel the fast inflow of vacationers to the desert round Lancaster and Palmdale presents issues.
Many occasions I’ve seen dozens, if not lots of, of automobiles lining a really busy two-lane freeway to park and stroll by way of these fields. Typically, individuals are crossing the freeway, in areas the place it’s unlawful for drivers to cross slower automobiles due to blind spots within the street cased by hills and turns.
Plus, now that the climate has warmed, rattlesnakes are popping out, and so they like to heat themselves amid these flowering crops and the place vacationers are strolling.
These fields, specifically, are California poppies, the state flower, and they’re protected against selecting, which I’ve seen many individuals doing.
For the security of native commuters and the longevity of those stunning flowers, please use frequent sense when visiting our dwelling to see this excellent phenomenon.
Christopher McCullah, Inexperienced Valley, Calif.
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To the editor: It is advisable apply what you preach.
When you’ve printed articles that embrace correct flower-viewing etiquette, within the print version you latterly printed a photograph on the entrance web page of the California part exhibiting somebody standing in the midst of a discipline of wildflowers.
Please don’t present photographs of individuals trampling the flowers. Remind guests to remain on the paths and depart the flowers for everybody else to get pleasure from.
Kathy Hanson, Huntington Seashore
