Feds scramble to repair damage, reverse ecocide caused by border wall disaster

Etched into the rhyolite on Signal Hill in Saguaro National Park about 800 years ago by the ancestors of the modern-day Tohono O'odham are their petroglyphs and rock art which are probably directions to water sources and hunting. Their Nation straddles the US/Mexico border.

Yvette Herrell is a member of the Cherokee Nation and the Republican New Mexico Representative from District 2 but her support for Herr Trump's border wall has strained the ties to her Indigenous heritage. Now, efforts to undo the damage to jaguar and ocelot habitats have begun in earnest while courts sort the fraudsters.

Environmental activists and tribal leaders say some of the damage is permanent, from the blasted mountains to the millions of gallons of water that can’t be put back in the ground. But they believe other effects of the wall can be reversed and they want the Biden administration to go further than stopping construction. [Arizona Republic]

Even North Dakota-based Fisher Sand and Gravel conspired with Trump and his henchman, Steve Bannon to defraud the United States. Fisher Industries is a major campaign contributor to Earth hating Republicans and is being investigated for substandard work on the US/Mexico border.

While not under federal control or part of any repair, a privately funded border wall built separately directly on the Rio Grande riverbank by federal border wall contractor Fisher Sand and Gravel is the subject of ongoing litigation between the U.S. government and the company, with a hearing held on May 5 in U.S. District Court in the southern district of Texas related to its construction. [Engineering News Record]

Just north of the border long-time environmental activist, Ted Turner has teamed up with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the State of New Mexico to foster a pair of endangered Mexican gray wolves and their pups on his 243 square mile ranch near the Gila National Forest.

Learn more about the recovery of the rarest subspecies of gray wolves linked here. Plan to save jaguars linked here.

ip photo: Saquaro National Park near Marana, Arizona.

A young juvenile jaguar was recently spotted on video south of the new border wall – indicating its range may be expanding — and raising hopes for the species' recovery. In order for jaguars to fully thrive, the border wall must come down. https://t.co/eqb7cTjrkZ

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