Posted on 09/17/2019 6:47:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Unrecorded archaeological sites within Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument could be destroyed by President Trump's border wall construction, according to a newly public National Park Service report obtained by the Washington Post.
The big picture: Customs and Border Patrol plans to finish construction through the Arizona International Biosphere Reserve by January, according to the report. Construction began on Aug. 29. The Trump administration told Axios in August it expects to build 450 miles of wall by the end of 2020 — but was unable to say when it would add its 1st mile of new wall to a border area without pre-existing barriers.
Details: The Trump administration aims to replace all existing vehicle barriers and pedestrian fencing along the monument's southern boundary with a 30 foot tall steel bollard fence, undergirded by an 8–10 foot concrete and steel foundation, according to the report, conducted in June and obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request from the Washington Post.
What they're saying: According to the report, archaeologists with NPS' Intermountain Region Archaeology Program and Southern Arizona Support Office say they "must assume" that all buried and unrecorded archaeological deposits within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument "will be destroyed over the course of ensuing border wall construction."
“We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents’ graveyards," Tohono O’odham Nation chairman Ned Norris Jr. told the Post.The Nation is one of at least a dozen Native American tribes that describe cultural and historical connections to the lands within the Arizona monument.
Too bad.
Tough Teat.
If it helps our national sovereignty, raze the whole ******* place.
It’s not Trump’s border wall it’s the American people, it’s our border.
Surprising they haven’t tried the global warming angle yet.
It’s worth it.
There is sooooo many “archeological” sites in the SW. So if a few of them sre “destroyed “ so what. The self-importance of archeologists is the driving force behind their concern. They want grant money. Who cares what some wacky group of cultural losets did thousands of yeats ago?
Give them time. They will eventually. It’s in their nature.
So? It’s a federal project. Call in the archaeologists. Wouldn’t be the first time a federal project disturbed a site. No biggie.
Give em a few bucks and send em packing.
I’m still waiting on the call that my father’s grave is in the way of a massive rail project and they’ll give me 50k to move him :)
Sorry pop!
...and illegals threaten AZ. Weigh the impact. Broken Adobe pottery or MS13
“Unrecorded archaeological sites” What are those? If they are “unrecorded,” how do they know they exist? More agenda news by a rabid leftist website.
The tohono o’dham nation has been in league with the cartels for ages, their nation is a smuggling corridor.
Runs from the border to Tucson.
Tango Sierra!
And the Tohono nation is a ****pit of broken booze bottles.
Sacred my eye!
So.
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