Thread by @latimes

In March, a brush fire broke out and scorched five acres of the Ballona Wetlands.

“I wasn’t surprised that a homeless person was eventually blamed as a likely source for the fire and neither was Scott Culbertson,” writes columnist @Erika_D_Smith. latimes.com/california/sto…

For about a year, two nonprofits, including one run by Culbertson, have been scrambling to manage the environmental damage caused by homeless people camping along Jefferson Boulevard.

It’s a relatively small group of homeless people, a few dozen at most. But their forays into the fragile ecological reserve and adjacent freshwater marsh have had disastrous effects that could take years to fix — and might not be fixable.

Despite all that, Culbertson rejects the idea that a choice needs to be made between protecting the environment and being sensitive to the needs of homeless people.

Read the full column from @Erika_D_Smith: latimes.com/california/sto…