Is it acceptable to spend more than one-third the operating budget of Yellowstone National Park to move a pile of bricks one-half mile, while some of America's ecoloogically fragile parks are vandalized and left in disrepair for lack of funding?

Linda Terrell, Albuquerque, NM

As I approach retirement age, I am impressed that the unified jacking system used to push the lighthouse was designed by a 78-year-old. As an accountant, I could not help but notice it cost about $1.20 a pound to move the lighthouse

George A. Fiebelkorn, Jr., Falls Church, VA