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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: the_Watchman

Spread trash and leave bodies lying about.


81 posted on 04/30/2020 4:58:43 PM PDT by arthurus ( doda covfefe)
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To: BeauBo
What! We are on the side of the environmentalists! We are trying to stop litter like this at the popular illegal border crossings in Texas:

And...also trying to protect defenseless women against vile human smugglers who rape them, as the "panty tree" in the middle portrays...

82 posted on 04/30/2020 4:58:49 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: centurion316
"... It turns out that the little buggers love armor mock battles that rage in the desert and they are reproducing like bunnies. I love a tender environmental story..."

Hahahahaha...I had to put a lot of images together in my head that never had any reason to be there together before!

83 posted on 04/30/2020 5:00:40 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Coronavirus itself will not burn down humanity. But we may burn ourselves down to be rid of it.)
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To: BeauBo

New Drone Footage Shows Damage From Trump’s Wall in Remote Arizona Wildlands.

Looks to me they are creating handicapped access roads.

As well as a safety barrier for those with disabilities.


84 posted on 04/30/2020 5:04:37 PM PDT by crz
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To: Kazan

What the hell is that? Is it eatable?

I’m sure a china man would say yes sight unseen.


85 posted on 04/30/2020 5:05:58 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

And the wind turbines that are reducing the migratory bird poplation.


86 posted on 04/30/2020 5:06:02 PM PDT by arthurus ( doda covfefe o)
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To: dsc

What if there was a wildlife refuge and no wildlife was there?


87 posted on 04/30/2020 5:07:06 PM PDT by arthurus ( doda covfefe oo)
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To: McGruff

Four maggots.


88 posted on 04/30/2020 5:07:15 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Yes..that.

They are creating a line of site for the practice range.

Makes targeting easier you see.


89 posted on 04/30/2020 5:07:46 PM PDT by crz
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To: Nateman
If some illegal wonders onto a mountain

I wander about that.

90 posted on 04/30/2020 5:08:38 PM PDT by arthurus ( doma covfefe oo)
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To: arthurus

“What if there was a wildlife refuge and no wildlife was there?”

I guess it wouldn’t make a sound.


91 posted on 04/30/2020 5:09:10 PM PDT by dsc (As for the foundations of the Catholic faith, this pontificate is an outrage to reason.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I'd rather see a wall keeping out the filthy diseased ignorant uneducated parasite wannabes than see the trash they strew on a country they hope will take them in and treat them to a lifetime of freebies they could only dream of. This is how they thank America even at their first [illegal] step into the country, costing millions of dollars a year for cleanup.

92 posted on 04/30/2020 5:09:44 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: BeauBo

Looks beautiful. Big giant wall keeping drugs, thugs, criminals and others out. Love it.


93 posted on 04/30/2020 5:12:01 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Piss on China. They nuked US and Europe with a bio weapon. Payback time)
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To: EinNYC

These parasites are nothing but pigs!


94 posted on 04/30/2020 5:12:35 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: BeauBo

I’ve looked at the photos and the videos, and I’m still looking for the “damage.”

I see construction, but no damage.


95 posted on 04/30/2020 5:14:27 PM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: BeauBo

Oh, at first I was worried that the wall was damaged.

Nothingburger.


96 posted on 04/30/2020 5:26:16 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: McGruff

38,000 Public comments against vs. 69,000,000 votes for.


97 posted on 04/30/2020 5:26:59 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: Kipp

“Remember the outcry in the ‘70s that the Alaska pipeline would kill off the caribou herds — and instead the number of caribou increased.”

Caribou love to cuddle up under or alongside that pipeline when its gets real cold (It can go down to below -60 at night, not counting wind chill). The pipeline is kept above freezing, so oil can flow, and can provide some shelter from a driving wind, on otherwise barren tundra. It has often been a lifesaver for Caribou.


98 posted on 04/30/2020 5:34:20 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

“and the rugged Tinajas Altas Mountains in the Barry M. Goldwater Bombing Range east of Yuma”

It’s a ‘bombing range’ and these tree huggers are crying about a fence.
Gimme a break...


99 posted on 04/30/2020 5:36:47 PM PDT by glasseye ( If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. H. L. Mencken)
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To: Don@VB

“If it keeps out only one ILLEGAL ALIEN it is worth it.”

If it saves one child.


100 posted on 04/30/2020 5:38:09 PM PDT by glasseye ( If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. H. L. Mencken)
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