LETTER OF THE WEEK

Thank you for the story on the silver anniversary of Amigos de Bolsa

Chica, which I read about today on the Huntington Beach Independent Web

site (“25 years and counting . . .,” Jan. 18).

I was born in 1961, grew up in Seal Beach and attended Huntington

Beach High School. The Bolsa Chica wetlands were always special to me,

and my wife, Annie, and we became dues-paying members of the group in

1990-1991, when we lived with our toddler son in an apartment on the

Bolsa Chica bluffs.

We moved to the Boston area the following year so Annie could take a

faculty position at MIT, but we continued to support Amigos with annual

contributions. More importantly, the work of the Amigos helped inspire me

to focus on environmental law as a student at Harvard Law School.

I was a senior editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and

next year, following my current clerkship with the Massachusetts Supreme

Court, I will begin practicing environmental law at New England’s largest

law firm, focusing on helping to bring major corporations and government

organizations into compliance with local, state and federal environmental

laws.

The work of Amigos goes on!

WILLIAM D. McCANTS

Cambridge, Mass.