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Originally published on December 14, 2020 7:27 am
In the Coronado National Memorial where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona contractors are pulverizing the wilderness in a rush to put up as many miles of border wall as possible before the Trump administration vacates Washington.
They re dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing pristine desert for a barrier the incoming Biden administration is expected to cancel. Wow! This is almost like busy work they re doing, exclaims biologist Myles Traphagen as he drives his truck up to the construction staging area and beholds the destruction for the first time. He specializes on the Arizona borderlands for the Wildlands Network.
John Kurc
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Heavy equipment is clearing a path for the border wall next to Coronado National Forest in Southern Arizona. Mexico is on the left. John Kurc
In the Coronado National Memorial where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona contractors are pulverizing the wilderness in a rush to put up as many miles of border wall as possible before the Trump administration vacates Washington.
They re dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing pristine desert for a barrier the incoming Biden administration is expected to cancel. Wow! This is almost like busy work they re doing, exclaims biologist Myles Traphagen as he drives his truck up to the construction staging area and beholds the destruction for the first time. He specializes on the Arizona borderlands for the Wildlands Network.