To the editor: As your article notes, funding for the newly declared San Gabriel Mountains National Monument is essentially nonexistent. This is hardly a new phenomenon. ("In the San Gabriel Mountains, they're asking: What monument?," Aug. 18)
For several decades, as presidents and Congress have vastly expanded the land holdings designated as national monuments, parks, recreation areas and historic sites, they have utterly failed to provide new monies in the federal budget to pay for running them properly.