In expressing angst about attacks on the proposed Keystone pipeline (Pipeline Shutdown, Nathan Vanderlippe and Carrie Tait, Globe and Mail, November 11, 2011, p. B1), could you not at least mention the environmental values that it threatens? Maybe even run a photo of it, instead of protesters in Washington? The Nebraska Sandhills are an iconic landscape “where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play”, and a unique ecozone. In 2010, I had a chance to visit the Sandhills for the first time. My brother and I parked the car many times and just walked out across the prairie. We watched hawks hunt prairie dogs under a sky that went on forever, saw pronghorn antelope gather at a waterhole, and were unnerved by a glowering bison bull moving between his herd and us. There is nowhere else on Earth where one can see this wildlife community in an undisturbed, natural environment. It is worth protecting.
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