Border wall construction in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a travesty

[CousinIT]

Organ Pipe National Monument Cactus (they will NEVER regenerate again) being destroyed NOW to build a fake penis for Trump along the Southern Border

https://www.hcn.org/articles/opinion-borderlands-border-wall-construction-in-organ-pipe-cactus-national-monument-is-a-travesty

[Submariner]

1. The wall will have to be cut down and removed the day after the next presidential inauguration

[Hortensis]

2. Despicable. Note that a prior barrier was already erected and

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and a road already in place to service it. That barrier stopped vehicles but not wildlife. Organ Pipe's southern border is almost Mexico. The federal government "owns" a very narrow strip along the U.S.-Mexico borders of AZ, NM and CA, which is how large areas of it came to be fenced against vehicles, in contrast to TX.

Btw, I have read about cacti being dug up and moved. This is despicable and sad for many reasons, but not as barbaric as many imagine.

We visited Organ Pipe decades ago on our way to Mexico, just passing by, but we love the desert and CA has virtually no cactus compared to AZ. As soon as you cross the Rio Grande it's strikingly different. By far most of it wasn't then, and I'm sure isn't now, accessible by vehicle, and we were the only people on that planet. Walking the desert is always lovely when the weather is also, but my dominant memory is of the very long, ruler-straight drive through very remote desert to get to the entrance and the arrow-straight, pretty much unchanging dirt road we took across part of the monument before it headed up over some mountains and dead-ending.

[UpInArms]

3. The destructive Don has done irreparable damage to so much

I weep for our country