To the Editor:

With dismay, I read Mr. Willistein’s article recounting the planning commission and zoning officers’ flirt with a developer eager to pave yet more of South Mountain’s rural landscape (this time along Honeysuckle Road and Emmaus Avenue).

There’s a growing threat to that rural landscape; Black River Road’s predators are no longer the winged or four-legged kind.

The guardians supposed to protect the rural beauty of Pennsylvania have been beguiled by money-hungry developers seeking to devour our tranquil, wooded lands. No wood means no place for deer to roam, no place for fox to hide, no place for raccoons to live, to say nothing of the little things: the Heron, tree frogs, stick insects and lightening bugs. Creatures cannot thrive on paved driveways, sidewalks or dried-out wetlands.

Salisbury’s commissioners of guardians tasked with protecting rural acreage (instead of scratching off zoning ordinances inconvenient to the whim and fancy of any given developer) seems to be in danger of becoming its worst predator.

Robin Casey nee Mickley

Allentown