Errors mar Autumn issue.Editor: "Human Systems and Ecosystems: We Need a New Way of Thinking," (Autumn 2006) read like an advertisement. I speak of the excessive use of the first person. "I" and "we" were used 73 times. "My experience," "my firm," "our firm," or "my company" were used 15 times. Ronald E. Bonar, Life Member North Augusta, South Carolina
Editor: I am a member of AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens and a strong believer in the value of trees to all of us. I was intrigued by the Autumn 2006 special issue but disturbed by problems with misspelled and misused words. I found problems also with notation. When you spend the money to produce a special insert about a very significant scientific subject and a new policy initiative, its text should be impeccable im·pec·ca·ble adj. 1. Having no flaws; perfect. See Synonyms at perfect. 2. Incapable of sin or wrongdoing. [Latin impecc . If I can't trust what I read, can I trust the intentions behind it? Sandra Lynn Reinke Carlsbad, New Mexico Carlsbad is the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 27,463. Carlsbad is the center of the designated micropolitan area of Carlsbad-Artesia, which has a total population of 51,658. Editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Thanks to all those who read this--and every--issue of American Forests with a careful eye. Because I was on extended medical leave last summer and fall, American Forests had to create the Autumn issue without its usual editor/art director team. |
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