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New Drone Footage Shows Damage From Trump’s Wall in Remote Arizona Wildlands
Center for Biological Diversity ^ | April 28, 2020 | Laiken Jordahl

Posted on 04/30/2020 3:53:58 PM PDT by BeauBo

New drone footage shows border-wall construction blasting through a wildlife refuge and mountain range in one of the most remote regions of the United States...

The wall is being built through the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, home to the endangered Sonoran pronghorn, and the rugged Tinajas Altas Mountains in the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range east of Yuma, Arizona...

The construction has forever altered the centuries-old Camino del Diablo, or Devil’s Highway. The ancient trade route, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was traveled by Native Americans, explorers, miners and missionaries like Father Eusebio Kino. Once a forbidding, high-clearance trail, the Camino has been bulldozed and bladed by construction crews into a major thoroughfare...

Wall construction has accelerated across the borderlands despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of miles of new construction have been announced in recent months...

Wall construction is ongoing in the neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and across Arizona.

(Excerpt) Read more at biologicaldiversity.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2006; 202005; borderwall; cabezaprieta; cabezaprietanwr; caminodeldiablo; cbd; devilshighway; mountain; organpipecactus; organpipecactusnm
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To: Don@VB

What I find so sickeningly hypocritical about these leftists whining about ecological damage from the wall is that they don’t seem to care about the significant damage to the environment being done by the illegals coming through.


41 posted on 04/30/2020 4:15:38 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: BeauBo

The wastelands of the West are a good place to keep foreigners.


42 posted on 04/30/2020 4:15:44 PM PDT by familyop (Hell hath no fury like a scorned parrot.)
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To: rktman

Seems like a bombing range would allow a secondary layer of boobytrapped Claymores and bouncing Betty’s.


43 posted on 04/30/2020 4:15:44 PM PDT by datura
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To: BeauBo

Awesome, keep blasting! The whining about destruction is fine too, the environmental assessments have been done and the commies already lost that argument. That’s why construction is happening.


44 posted on 04/30/2020 4:16:13 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods ("As government expands, liberty contracts." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: familyop

I winters in Yuma and spend time in the mountains down there.

Your right just a bunch of rocks and sand


45 posted on 04/30/2020 4:16:58 PM PDT by riverrunner ( o the public,)
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To: BeauBo

Trump’s Wall is keeping butterflies from migrating!


46 posted on 04/30/2020 4:18:17 PM PDT by Does so (Call it the CCP-virus...The Corona-virus dies in Summer's sunlight! But next spring's Chinese virus?)
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To: BeauBo

Sad.


47 posted on 04/30/2020 4:19:15 PM PDT by AirForceVet1988 ("As the pattern gets more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough.")
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To: Political Junkie Too
I love the desert. And I'm sure it holds lots of wildlife. Probably some endangered tortoises and vegetation as well. But a wall and some roads is minuscule in vast empty spaces like this. It might disrupt some of the antelope movement, but they'll get used to it.
48 posted on 04/30/2020 4:19:46 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: BeauBo

“The construction has forever altered the centuries-old Camino del Diablo, or Devil’s Highway.”

Finally gonna keep the Devil out.


49 posted on 04/30/2020 4:21:16 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Bullish

The damage done to these regions by them is pretty bad too.


50 posted on 04/30/2020 4:21:59 PM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: BeauBo

The writer used the adjective REMOTE to describe the sunbaked rock hills. Remote is another word for nobody goes there unless they’re researchers or illegals.

Do you know how many remote sunbaked rock hills there are in the western states?


51 posted on 04/30/2020 4:22:29 PM PDT by lurk
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To: BeauBo

Unless they’re constructing it out of yak carcasses or whatever, the critters will be fine.


52 posted on 04/30/2020 4:27:30 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: ArmstedFragg

Marines & Navy have been bombing the $hit out of that area since I was stationed in Yuma back in the seventies. If the butterfly’s and pronghorns can survive decades of 500lbs bombs being dropped I do not think the wall is endangering them. Journalists are getting dumber everyday.


53 posted on 04/30/2020 4:29:26 PM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
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To: BeauBo

“in the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range east of Yuma, Arizona...”

That is a military base. Trump can build what he sees fit.


54 posted on 04/30/2020 4:29:48 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: BeauBo
It's been done before


55 posted on 04/30/2020 4:30:25 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: BeauBo

Thanks for the update.

As noted the wall is our wall not trumps.

The enviro whackos are never concerned about the 24/7 damage done by illegals in those areas.


56 posted on 04/30/2020 4:32:57 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs/PRC, ESPN of America's, fake news media/CNN, Democrats, the real Deep Staters?)
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To: euram
It’s not Trump’s Wall, it is Our Wall.
57 posted on 04/30/2020 4:34:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Are the ChiComs/PRC, ESPN of America's, fake news media/CNN, Democrats, the real Deep Staters?)
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To: BeauBo

Sorry, not giving a shi...an Obama.

The wildlife will figure it out even if progressives cannot.

Shove it.


58 posted on 04/30/2020 4:37:07 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: JohnBrowdie

Quick! We also need to tear down all the solar farms that are desecrating deserts worldwide.


59 posted on 04/30/2020 4:38:14 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: BeauBo

What’s the damage part?


60 posted on 04/30/2020 4:41:43 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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