If this type of information were to be disseminated enough, perhaps the environmentally aware would realize the necessity of controlling the borders.
They were screaming about potential danger of the heated oil pipe line in Alaska upsetting the caribou, which turned out to be not true, in fact the caribou like the warmth and are breeding like crazy.
Yet the damage to the southern desert areas along the border are getting little to no attention at all.
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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.
This sounds a bit like an man-made ecological disaster.
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.
I know, all we have to do is set out some trash containers along the route and the problem will be solved. We could also hire some of the illegals that come in to do the trash routes to empty the containers. A twofer, cleans up the desert and gives jobs to the new border crashers.
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."
This should say something about the sheer number of people crossing this region. They have turned what was a living desert into a dust bowl.
The constant human pressure is threatening to eliminate the area's wildlife. The refuge's population of the endangered Sonoran pronghorn, a deerlike creature, had fallen to 21 - down from 179 in 1992 -— and the species was headed for extinction before a captive-breeding program was established in 2004.
Here is the "caribou" extinction that the enviro's should be screaming about, although with only 21 wild breeding pronghorns outside of zoos, the species will not exist in their natural habitat, if it could support them with the damage done to the ecosystem again for decades at best.
East of Organ Pipe, residents of the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation recently removed more than 7,000 abandoned vehicles.
Figure an average of only five per car that's 35,000 illegals right there.
Wendy Glenn, whose family runs a cattle ranch near Douglas, described the harm done to livestock and wildlife.
"There are at least two semi [tractor-truck] loads of trash in the canyon behind us, and there are probably seven canyons like that," she said. "Our cattle eat the trash. Little animals stick their heads in bean cans and walk around with the cans on their muzzle until they die. Our neighbor had a cow in a corral - it was having a problem calving. They came back in the morning to check on it, and two illegals had killed the calf and were cooking it.
This is the respect for private property that they bring, along with their feeling of right to entitlement. "Hey, the gringos are all rich so they won't miss one little calf if we take it."
"There's constant harassment of wildlife," Glenn said. "Deer don't feed during the night, because there's too many people running around. They need to go into the thickets to shade up during the day, but they go in now and there's people there, along with trash and fecal matter."
At Organ Pipe, on Cabeza Prieta's eastern border, the National Park Service estimates that visitors hiking the park's trails may encounter 200 pounds of trash per mile. Wildlife biologists say trash and human waste spread disease among animals.
Soil compaction across hundreds of miles of roads and trails has killed cactuses' shallow root systems, causing towering saguaro and organ-pipe cactuses to topple, taking with them animal food sources and bird nests.
At Organ Pipe, American Indian relics and pioneer ranch buildings have been damaged or destroyed, Billings said. The corral from Dos Lomitas Ranch, a 19th-century site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is being taken apart board by board and the wood used for campfires.
Not only are they destroying our present, they are erasing our past.
One would think that those on the left, if they can handle more than one related issue at a time, would be concerned enough to support controlling immigration so as not to destroy the enviroment.
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