Why glorify celebrity binges and drug use?

To the editor:

I thought Tuesday's column by Doug Elfman touting drinking binges and cocaine lines "the size of Oprah Winfrey" was bad enough. But all that great information was repeated again Friday on the front page.

Who really cares what Matt Sorum and Charlie Sheen did 10 years ago? Are you guys that desperate for news? Drinking and drugs are not my idea of a real good time.

Stephanie Jorgenson

HENDERSON

Wildlife guzzler

To the editor:

Regarding the Associated Press wildlife guzzler article published in the Dec. 14 Review-Journal, does the state Board of Agriculture really want to pick this fight?

Most of the members of the Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn are sportsmen and concerned citizens of Nevada who like to recreate and use the federal lands. They are also citizens who are friends of ranchers and are on the side of landowner rights.

The amount of land and water used by guzzlers compared to acreage in the state of Nevada is too silly to even consider. Most guzzlers that have been built in Southern Nevada in the past 10 years are installed with helicopters on the top of mountain ranges that are very restrictive to livestock use and the general public, such as hikers.

The guzzlers are built into the side of rocks in the mountains and camouflaged so that the general observer won't be able to see it.

We don't build these guzzlers just for bighorn sheep, but for all wildlife, including the bees and birds.

Former Nevada Wildlife Commissioner Jim Jeffers said it best when he remarked that, "If you don't have water there, how is that taking away from livestock?"

Jelindo A. Tiberti II

LAS VEGAS

THE WRITER IS PRESIDENT OF THE FRATERNITY OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP.