Keep Patagonia an EMP-Free Zone

We were in Patagonia last week enjoying looking at properties for sale. We were very interested in what we found there, but then so disappointed to read in your PTR newspaper later that another communication tower is being installed on Red Mt soon. Until my husband and I read this news, we were excited that we’d just discovered that Patagonia and outlying parts of Elgin and Sonoita were very close to being a rare bonefide electrosmog haven – an EMF Free Zone. In our world travels we had only run across such a “pure” EMF-free place once before, and that was in the eco-pristine jungles of Costa Rica. This discovery in your area was very exciting to us, and just such a place we’d hoped to find to relocate our home – my husband, an Electrical Engineer, who retired to become involved in EMF Personal Protection (from such wireless technology as celltowers, WiFi, power lines etc), and me, a health research writer and author of 22 books dealing with personal health and well-being issues. We are ALL sensitive to EMF to one degree or another, because wireless communication interferes with the normal electrochemical signals within every cell of our body and brain, and disrupts function. Worse, it damages our DNA irreparably, and has been linked with so many serious diseases that in 2011 the WHO (World Health Organization) classified cellphone radiation (one example of the same
types of wireless communication causes we are talking about here), as a Class II Carcinogen (in the same category as lead and DDT).

Wouldn’t you think that a precious low EMF environment (without wireless communication towers) would be worth protecting as much as a riparian water shed?

Trish and Chris Young, www.emf-experts.com

Divisive Labels

I enjoyed Martin Levowitz’s essay “Here, Now” in the May issue, but all those labels are so divisive. What’s that old joke about the food truck hot dog sales guy saying to the Zen monk, “One with everything”? We’re all “tourists” and if a guy wants to avoid the psychotic commercialization of everything in this culture, he better create his own little niche of reality, invitation only. Come to think of it, that would be my characterization of Sonoita, not really a town, but a crossroads; a collection of people who have created a bunch of niches that connect, sometimes very obscurely, but well enough to make the whole thing work. That’s what I like about it.

Doug Morris

Errors & Omissions

Our May article about Friends of Sonoita Creek was credited to Allyson Armstrong, but should have been credited to Lynn Davison. The following corrections were also requested by Allyson Armstrong: 1) Not all public land has been leased for grazing, and each agency, bureau, department etc. has its own grazing protocol. 2) Annette Koweek of Elgin School was the first teacher to participate in Project WET with Friends assistance.

We also included a photo of the tower being built in Red Mountain, and incorrectly attributed the road that was built to access the tower as having been done by the Forest Service. The road was built by DM Engineering, through a contract with the tower project.

PRT has been advised that a few people found the graphic of Elvis superimposed on a figure of The Virgin of Guadalupe, which accompanied the short article on Velvet Elvis Mexican Wednesdays, to be offensive. We apologize for any ill feelings this may have caused.