Biden has vowed that not another foot of border wall will be built by his administration, but he has also said that he won’t tear down what has already been built. Even if those additional miles of border wall aren’t torn down, Millis says they should at least be shortened. Though the Trump administration built just 47 miles miles of border wall where none had existed before, it completed 452 miles of its new border wall system: The majority of construction replaced shorter so-called vehicle barriers and pedestrian fencing that already existed with 18- to 30-foot steel walls. … [Read more...] about The border wall is destroying ecosystems. Biden can fix it
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Border Walls Aren’t Just Political Objects—They’re Ecological Barriers, Too
Fortunately, parts of the fence line are relatively passable for wildlife; some spots are engineered to stop vehicles rather than people. But these areas are more likely to correspond with roadways than heavily used wildlife corridors. Going forward, with border security only likely to tighten, hopefully a few of those billions of dollars will go toward ensuring that wildlife can readily cross the border where they need to. But many wildlife laws (the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act) are waived as the Department of Homeland Security builds out the border wall. Scientists and wildlife advocates have been pushing for a more intelligent approach—via wildlife passages, for instance. We’ve seen them work in Canada and the U. S. Perhaps they can be part of the conversation about the southern border wall, too. … [Read more...] about Border Walls Aren’t Just Political Objects—They’re Ecological Barriers, Too