Dear friends, I’m touching base with an update on border wall construction in the Sky Islands, impacts to our Border Wildlife Study, and actions to take below. For the past... Read more »| Sky Island Alliance
With new border wall construction starting this month in the Tucson Sector, wildlife will undergo further habitat fragmentation across the San Rafael Valley and Huachuca Mountains. Our research shows that border wall, with 6-inch bollards separated by just 4-inch spaces between bollards, stops 86% of wildlife on the ground from crossing the border. | skyislandalliance.org
Water sources like springs are imperiled along the border in the San Rafael Valley, due to impending construction of the Trump administration’s 30-foot-high border wall. It is estimated that 500,000 gallons of local groundwater will be pumped for every mile of wall built and will be used to create cement footers for the wall and to keep dust down. This will impact springs by drawing on shared groundwater — putting wildlife and native plants at risk from reduced water access. | skyislandalliance.org
Originally issued on Tuesday, President Donald Trump has now postponed tariffs on any goods that would fall under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement| Superior Telegram
Originally issued on Tuesday, President Donald Trump has now postponed tariffs on any goods that would fall under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement| Mitchell Republic