I have been out of town for about a month. When I got back, my husband and I took our little granddaughters to Line Creek Nature Preserve.

A huge number of trees, many large hardwoods, have pink ribbons around them indicating that they are going to be cut down, pushed over by bulldozers.

For what?

So that Peachtree City can have more big box development. I know the mayor and the city council are pro-development, but this is ridiculous.

To my knowledge, we have two nature preserves. One is the wetlands with the boardwalk off the cart path below Lake Peachtree. The other is the Line Creek Nature Preserve. The creek falls over rock shoals in the preserve. It is a beautiful area.

If the land is privately owned, there is nothing we can do. If it belongs to the citizens of Peachtree City, we are allowing our grandchildren’s birthright to be sold for a mess of porridge.

I urge everyone to go peruse the area before it is too late. Imagine the creek sullied by mud and debris from construction, and it will be. I also urge you to enjoy this gem of water, rocks, lake, and woods quickly before our civic-minded Peachtree City Council destroys a beautiful green space which belongs not to them — but to us.

How can we let this happen? Ruining a beautiful nature preserve for big box development.

Are we insane?

Kemie Nix

Peachtree City, Ga.