I wish everyone who has posted could visit the site of the BP agents death. On a plateau which to the west looks down into a small gorge at the base of the Atascosa Mountains, it is truly a lovely sight, and one known to only a few Americans. Yet, it is only a few miles from the highway that connects Tucson with Nogales, Arizona. Unfortunately, most of the wild and beautiful lands of the Arizona-Mexico border are today off limits, and the American road that once led from the border north of Mexico’s Sonoyta to just below Yuma has been closed to vehicular traffic for years. Hunters loved the place for the javalena are everywhere,and there are still reports of sightings of jaguar in the Sycamore Canyon. It’s enough to make one weep for this nation that we would surrender this birthright.