Researchers Fear Southern Fence Will Endanger Species Further

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/19/AR2008041900942.html?hpid=topnews


The debate over the fence the United States is building along its southern border has focused largely on the project's costs, feasibility and how well it will curb illegal immigration. But one of its most lasting impacts may well be on the animals and vegetation that make this politically fraught landscape their home.

Some wildlife researchers have grown so concerned about the consequences of bisecting hundreds of miles of rugged habitat that they have talked of engaging in civil disobedience to block the fence's construction.

"This wall is so asinine, and so wrong, I am one of a dozen scientists ready to lay our bodies down in front of tractors," Healy Hamilton, who directs the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information at the California Academy of Sciences, told colleagues at a recent scientific retreat here. "This is one thing we might be able to stop."

"Make it 13!" said Allison Jones, a conservation biologist at the Wild Utah Project, an advocacy group.

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1. But it'll help save the most endangered species of all - the rare White Man.

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2. ....

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3. "MISTER BUSH -- TEAR DOWN THIS FENCE!"

Please suggest this to any Mexican activist or pol you happen to know.

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4. Is this fence really being built? I've lost track.

It really is asinine on so many levels I don't know where to start.