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LETTERS

BREATHLESS

May 2022! The artwork in this issue took my breath away, from Tony Abeyta’s images, which accompanied Brian Oaster’s “The Power in a Name,” to Richard Misrach’s positive-to-negative photography (“Seeing Differently”). These are truly a step beyond obligatory illustrative photography to break up long segments of text.

Linda Paul Boise, Idaho

LA’S LION

It is so seldom that I read articles of hope and planning for wildlife. Having grown up very close to Griffith Park, I was delighted to read of wildlife still somehow surviving in L.A.

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