When I attended Wildwood Elementary for fifth and sixth grades, some of our assemblies were hosted by Conejo Recreation and Park District. Native animals were brought in with a message that they were special and needed to be respected.

Also in sixth grade, our class was shown Wildwood Park's native plants and animals, again the message was that it was special and was to be respected.

I wonder: How can this city teach its children to respect and protect nature at the same time its adults allow it to be destroyed? Is this the message we want to pass to succeeding generations?

What good is our 15,000 acres of open space if we can allow wildlife corridors to be severed? What recently occurred at the planning commission was a disgrace of the highest degree.

Where mountain lions reared their young, and the coyotes sang their night songs and the Chumash people lit their fires, houses have been erected as a monument to greed.

This issue, like other environmental issues has been politicized.

This issue is not political but an issue of right versus wrong.

I fully support Save Our Ring of Greens' plans to appeal this mistake because the planning commission was wrong. Clint Robert Matkovich Thousand Oaks