A drone tour of 7 ecologically important areas being destroyed by Trump’s #borderwall in Ariz.

These are wildlife refuges, national park land, endangered species habitat, wilderness & biodiversity hotspots.

1) Buenos Aries National Wildlife Refuge

2) Tinajas Altas Mountains

3) The San Pedro River at the San Pedro National Conservation Area

4) Quitobaquito Springs and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

5) San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge and Guadalupe Canyon

6) Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge

7) Coronado National Memorial, Huachuca Mountains

How has Trump been able to do this? Simple, he waived these 41 federal & state laws that protect land, water and indigenous sacred/cultural sites:

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act

The Endangered Species Act
The National Environmental Policy Act

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act)

The National Historic Preservation Act

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act

The Migratory Bird Conservation Act

The Clean Air Act
The Archeological Resources Protection Act

The Paleontological Resources Preservation Act

The Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988

The Safe Drinking Water Act

The Noise Control Act

The Solid Waste Disposal Act
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

The Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act

The Antiquities Act

The Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

The Farmland Protection Policy Act
The Wilderness Act

The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act

The National Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956

The Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

The National Trails System Act

The Administrative Procedure Act

The Wild Horse and Burro Act
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899

The National Park Service Organic Act and the National Park Service General Authorities Act

Sections 401(7), 403, and 404 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978

Sections 301(a)-(f) of the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act
Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988

The National Forest Management Act of 1976

The Multiple-Use and Sustained-Yield Act of 1960

The Eagle Protection Act

43 U.S.C. 387, part of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939
50 Stat. 1827, presidential proclamation for Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

16 U.S.C. 450y, presidential proclamation for Coronado National Memorial

67 Stat. c18, establishment of Coronado National Memorial

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30 Aug
Trump’s wall has expanded across Organ Pipe Cactus Nat. Monument quickly in recent months. It’s closing in on sacred Quitobaquito Spring. Yesterday, O’odham activists, elders & others circled the spring for songs & prayers and promises to protect this sacred site.
The water level is extremely low at Quitobaquito Spring. Construction crews are pumping millions of gallons of precious desert water onsite for construction of Trump’s border wall. Compounded by drought, things feel very dire. Songs for monsoon rains were sung.
To the east of Quitobaquito Trump’s wall moves ever closer, within a half mile now. Giant light poles have been erected to erase the night in the middle of this international biosphere reserve. These lights will blast sacred Quitobaquito all night long if/when they arrive.
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29 Apr
How can Trump ram a wall through wildlife refuges, indigenous cultural sites and federally designated endangered species habitat? Simple: he waived these 41 laws:

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

The Endangered Species Act /1

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act

The National Environmental Policy Act

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act)

The National Historic Preservation Act

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act

The Migratory Bird Conservation Act /2
The Clean Air Act

The Paleontological Resources Preservation Act

The Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988

The Safe Drinking Water Act

The Noise Control Act

The Solid Waste Disposal Act /3
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8 Apr
Yesterday I went out to the headwaters of the Yaqui River, to the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Arizona to check on border wall construction & wildlife corridors & jaguar critical habitat. I was shocked to see the entire valley is almost walled off. /1
The wall is heading straight for Guadalupe Canyon seen here. This canyon connects the Peloncillos in Arizona to the Sierra Pan Duro and San Luis in northern Mexico which make a straight line to the northern most breeding population further south in Sonora, Mexico. /2
There was so much activity. During the national emergency that is Covid-19 work crews seem to have doubled in size since I last was out there. There so much activity: cranes placing wall, crews welding, cement trucks, water trucks, earth movers raising walls of dust. /3
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9 Feb
This is the top of "Monument Hill," a sacred site to multiple tribes, that @DHSgov is dynamiting right now to build the #borderwall. It's part of the historic homeland of the O'odham. Apache are buried here. Trump waived the Native American Graves Protection Act to allow this.
@DHSgov I hiked up Monument Hill several months ago with @LaikenJordahl to get a lay of the land before actual construction had started. From here you see the vast wild UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve that is Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Now it's being destroyed.
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1 Feb
These are 41 laws that Trump has waived for the construction of his new border wall:

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act

The Endangered Species Act /1
The National Environmental Policy Act

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act)

The National Historic Preservation Act

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act

The Migratory Bird Conservation Act

The Clean Air Act /2
The Archeological Resources Protection Act

The Paleontological Resources Preservation Act

The Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988

The Safe Drinking Water Act

The Noise Control Act

The Solid Waste Disposal Act /3
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