Readers' Forum

We received a lot of feedback about October’s “Shooting an Elephant.” To read more letters, and a picture of Ron Kujawa’s kill that precipitated the correspondence, visit www.lawnandlandscape.com/webextras. — Chuck Bowen

As someone who reads your magazine for information relative to the lawn and landscape industry, I fail to see why you have included an article and the accompanying disturbing picture of Ron Kujawa shooting an elephant. Perhaps he may view this as a “sport,” although I certainly do not. May I suggest limiting your articles to the industry topics your magazine purports to cover rather than the inhumane slaughter of innocent and endangered animals.

Ingrid Charles
A-Lot-Cleaner
Toms River, N.J.

The article in the October 2009 issue about a man killing an elephant for pleasure is reprehensible. It is a horrendous story about the despicable actions of a man who has no respect for life. Why you felt it belonged in your magazine is beyond my comprehension. 
 
If that is the kind of behavior your magazine supports and encourages, I want no part of it. 
 
Bobbi Bauer
Owner
Bobbi Bauer Landscape
West Palm Beach, Fla.

Just what were your people thinking when they placed a photo of some fat guy gloating over a dead elephant in Africa? I am far, far from some left-wing, hippie mind-set, but I find it absolutely offensive, downright wicked for some rich American to go into the African bush to slaughter a magnificent beast. I no longer want your publication. 
What is the point? Are your readers so red necked out that the huge carcass would thrill them to the spewing of drool? 

Robert Haines
Lacey, Wash.

We have been in the landscape industry for over 20 years. We work in a mountain ski resort area where people value wildlife. We understand and support hunting when it is in the best interest of the animal population or necessary to feed a family. We were disgusted with the article and the pride this man took in killing this animal for such stupid, materialist things. Please remove us from your mailing list.
 
Lance and Teresa Erskine
Owners
Landscapes by Lance
Telluride, Colo.