I wish to offer Mr. Greg Bogard a tardy thanks for his letter (“Plan for egress road dangerous, wasteful,” March 29), as I wasn’t aware of the possibility of this ill-advised plan.

I would like to know if there’s any update on the proposal.

I think the idea should be very disturbing to anyone who loves and cares about the lake, and the fact that it is all part of the much larger area of the Nez Perce homeland that was stolen from them in the mid- to late 1800s should be another reason to prevent further damage.

To look at the lake today, even though it is still spectacularly beautiful, it’s obviously very “developed” already, and already almost encircled by roads, not to mention the tram and the nearly constant noise of powerboats and Jet Skis in the summer. It’s easy to imagine it losing its natural beauty to over-development. It needs to be protected just as it is, not squandered away with pointless projects.

If the egress road was to be built, what would possibly follow — another road — an emergency egress road to the egress road should the first one be closed by some natural event? Where does it end?

Use the money for the protection of this natural treasure instead of engaging in the constant chipping away at the nature that remains.

William Boggess

Enterprise