To the editor:

The picture on last week’s Review front page shows, in the foreground, the clearing done by Visconsi for the new shopping center.

What’s less apparent is that all the trees in the background are covered in English Ivy. Those trees will die soon if no one does something about the ivy. A huge percentage of the trees on Bainbridge are also at risk of dying soon if no one clears the ivy.

Most of the ivy-choked trees are on private property. Let’s all resolve to protect and save our remaining trees from the ivy by scouting our properties and removing ivy from our own land before these forests die.

Let’s also resolve to protest any new up zoning of existing island lands due to a perceived need by the city of Bainbridge Island to comply with the state’s Growth Management Act.

Unless the state gives us a billion dollar water pipeline for future growth we cannot afford to risk overdevelopment given our limits on water.

We can’t afford to take the USGS word that there’s enough water here. Unless, of course, they will indemnify us against a wrong opinion. (That won’t happen.)

N. MARCK

Bainbridge Island