A national monument in Arizona, home to rare species and sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up this week as part of construction for President Trump's border wall… How could Trump run roughshod over a protected site to build his border wall? How could Trump run roughshod over a protected site to build his border wall? It was difficult to imagine a wall slicing across this landscape I had grown to love. Trump declared a national emergency at the U.S. border in February 2019, allowing him to divert $7.2 billion in military funds to go toward border wall construction. The section of President Trump's border wall being built through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona's Sonoran Desert has been controversial from the start. The destruction of any organ pipe cactus, which is protected, is a crime.

Trump, who wrote and signed the orders to build the wall, should face the same punishment that you and I … The construction of President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall could see countless archaeological artifacts within Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument damaged or … It’s an almost solemn moment: A single saguaro cactus, perhaps 10 feet tall, is ripped from the desert to make way for President Trump’s border wall. ‘Desecration’: Trump border wall causes sacred hundred-year-old cacti to be chopped down. An internal National Park Service report obtained by The Post found construction of Trump’s wall could destroy up to 22 archaeological sites within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Border Wall Construction In Arizona Bulldozes Cactus Columns President Trump's border wall is going up between Arizona and Mexico, and it's generating controversy because of … September 26, 2019 - by Gary Paul Nabhan President Trump's wall will skirt one of the most beloved areas in the Southwest, the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

People are sawing through and climbing over Trump’s border wall. Nick Miroff 6/4/2020. A national monument in Arizona, home to rare species and sacred Native American burial sites, is being blown up this week as part of construction for President Trump's border wall…

I spent Trump’s inauguration day wandering through a cactus forest near the border. Op-Eds. Trump’s Border Wall: Epitaph for an Endangered, Night-blooming Cactus? An internal National Park Service report obtained by The Post found construction of Trump’s wall could destroy up to 22 archaeological sites within Organ Pipe Cactus …

The section of President Trump's border wall being built through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona's Sonoran Desert has been controversial from the start.The national monument, established in 1937 and named a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve in 1976, is not only a fragile ecological gem but also an area with deep spiritual and cultural importance to several …

The decline of a rare cactus in a national park epitomizes the Trump administration’s failure to protect endangered species along the border.