Why the Seattle Times went through the trouble of importing this article from the LA Times.
It couldn’t be bias, right?
Border battle is taking toll on desert’s wildlife
Mountains of trash, recurring fires, despoiled natural springs, vandalized historic sites and disappearing wildlife are part of the devastating toll that the government’s running battle with smugglers and migrants is taking on national parks and wildlife refuges along the U.S. border with Mexico.
In southern Arizona, the damage extends to American Indian and private land, jeopardizing a broad expanse of the Sonoran Desert.
At Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, 2 ½ million pounds of garbage is scattered through broad valleys and desert arroyos every year, according to Roger DiRosa, the refuge manager. Officials with the U.S. Border Patrol say the refuge’s seven mountain ranges — home to bighorn sheep and a prized destination for wilderness hikers — now serve as posts for lookouts who use night-vision equipment to track Border Patrol movements. Mountain peaks conceal clandestine radio repeating stations. Illegal “ghost roads” carved by smugglers and pursuing federal agents crisscross Cabeza Prieta and nearby Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
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On a recent tour of the damage, DiRosa, who manages Cabeza Prieta for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, steered his truck toward the Growler Mountains, making slow headway through what used to be fertile desert topsoil. A constant stream of vehicles has pulverized the sand into a fine powder that DiRosa and other federal land managers call “moon dust.”
Did you catch the pro-illegal immigrant bent in the first paragraph?
According to Julie Cart of the LA Times, it is the government’s attempts to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficing that is destroying this environment. If they would just stop partolling, the illegals and smugglers wouldn’t have to use these areas.
Must be why the enviro-weenies aren’t out there protesting.