Elke Blodgett is lost in time and perspective in the belief that a 90-year-old tree is ancient, and that plants and animals should have the same consideration as humans, in her letter to the editor (Gazette, April 11).
The environmental movement has misplaced its perspective by trying to humanize plants and animals, and Elke conveys this same rhetoric by noting that "none of us will live long enough to see any of the proposed replacements (trees) grow to maturity."
Trees are not children or grandchildren, and may only be related by an evolutionary time span of millions of years.
Ken Johnson, St. Albert
