The Fight for San Pedro Border wall imperils Arizona's last free-flowing river

[Kali]

https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-fight-for-san-pedro/Content?oid=27353821

The Fight for San Pedro
Border wall imperils Arizona’s last free-flowing river
By Jeff Gardner

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According to event organizer Jeff Sturges, one of the big frustrations regarding the San Pedro construction is "getting any kind of information whatsoever" from government agencies.

"We tried to reach out to every group we could and make it as wide a coalition as we could," Sturges says. "We even managed to elicit some Trump supporters who otherwise support a wall, but saw how ridiculous it would be to build a structure across the river."

The Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection have said little about what exactly will be constructed over the San Pedro since the contract was announced last May. However, the Bureau of Land Management did say building across the San Pedro would be an "engineering challenge."

"They've already started construction, but we still don't know what they're going to build," says Laiken Jordahl, borderlands campaigner for the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, as well as a former National Park Service wilderness fellow. "But we're seeing heavy equipment and construction activity. And they've cut off road access to the site as well, so whatever they're doing, it seems like they're doing it in a very secretive manner."
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[mr_lebowski]

1. A Wall ... through a river? That's not, you know, a dam. Are you fcking kidding me right now?

[Kali]

3. even a barbed wire fence turns into a dam when the summer storms come

though those do tend to burst easier than this thing will. the bigger issue is animal migration. anything that can block a human is going to block most medium to large mammals. (and meanwhile humans have these things, they are called "ladders"... )

[abqtommy]

2. Damn walls, not rivers!