Bravo, David Carroll, on your impassioned yet fully informed defense of the Warner River corridor as a natural area (Monitor, 3/9). Thank you for reminding us of that ‘inconvenient’ truth, that our lives are inextricably shared with other sentient life.

Species extinction and climate change are clarion wake up calls. What better way to demonstrate that we hear them and understand what they mean for our children’s future, and our own, than by establishing the Warner River Corridor as a sanctuary for riverine species where natural processes play out, unimpeded by the likes of us well intended recreationists.

Margaret Watkins

Dunbarton