Conservationists: Trump border wall has scarred wilderness areas, other PAs
- Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Nov 2, 2020
- 1 min read
In the 1980s, when Kevin Dahl first began visiting the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, the border was unmarked, save for a simple fence used to keep cattle from a ranch in the US from crossing into Mexico. In those days, park rangers would call in their lunch orders at a diner located just across the border.
Since then, a 30ft steel bollard wall has replaced the old barbed wire fence at Organ Pipe. The towering steel barrier cuts through the Unesco reserve like a rust-colored suture.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/31/trump-border-wall-wilderness-wildlife-impact
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