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| What's Really Important: Border Crossings Rise Could Further Endanger Rare Pronghorn |
| 2005-07-09 |
| TUCSON - Biologists are concerned that an increase in migrant traffic on the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge could have deadly consequences for the endangered Sonoran pronghorn. The biologists say they have noticed a spike since early spring during which traffic has gone from a handful of crossers a night to 200. The number of Border Patrol agents in the refuge has doubled. The refuge shares a 60-mile border with Mexico, but the increased migration has been funneled though a single, narrow valley. That's the same area where biologists and volunteers have been installing watering holes and irrigation plots to bolster the native plants that pronghorn graze on. John Hervert, a biologist with Arizona Game and Fish, fears the traffic could scare the deerlike pronghorn away from their best chance for survival. Only 58 adult Sonoran pronghorn survive in the United States today. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #6 In a desert border region add waterholes. And you're supprised that "migrant traffic" now use your watering holes because... Migrant traffic implies going both ways. Is there some vast immigration from the US to Mexico I'm not aware of,or is this another writer afraid to write the ? |
| Posted by: Stephen 2005-07-09 15:38 |
| #5 But don't they realize they have no enemies on the Left |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-07-09 12:58 |
| #4 So, Jackel, who lost? (Since it's the Sierra Club & the leftists, nobody actually won, I know.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-09 12:34 |
| #3 Last year, the Sierra Club had a big battle between a faction that was opposed to illegal immigration (more yucky humans) and of leftist solidarity (gay rights, illegal immigrants, death row inmates, snail darters, are all our allies). |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-09 10:19 |
| #2 You can bet the Left will be wondering which side too take in this one. "Illegals or Pronghorn: Decision 2005" |
| Posted by: Charles 2005-07-09 01:03 |
| #1 What's Really Important glad sumones got it rite. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-07-09 00:40 |