Laiken Jordahl
@laikenjordahl.bsky.social
Fighting for all things wild across the West with my friends at Center for Biological Diversity.
Steve Pearce, Trump's nominee to lead the BLM, might be the single biggest threat Western public lands have ever seen.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Steve Pearce, Trump's nominee to lead the BLM, might be the single biggest threat Western public lands have ever seen.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands.
We must stop him.
A rare bit of good news: a federal judge just ruled DHS can’t use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall our border wall lawsuit while construction barrels ahead through critical jaguar habitat in the San Rafael Valley.
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
Judge rules border wall lawsuit can move forward during gov't shutdown
A federal judge moved forward a lawsuit over border wall construction in Arizona's San Rafael Valley on Wednesday after environmentalists showed contractors were using explosives in "ecologically sens...
www.tucsonsentinel.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A rare bit of good news: a federal judge just ruled DHS can’t use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall our border wall lawsuit while construction barrels ahead through critical jaguar habitat in the San Rafael Valley.
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...
Oil tycoon Steve Pearce is a disastrous pick to run the BLM. He's long pushed for the liquidation of public lands & championed efforts to obliterate national monuments. Just like Sen. Lee, he'll be chomping at the bit so sell our public lands off to corporations & billionaires. He's also a creep.
Steve Pearce used to be my Representative. He is the guy who wrote in his book that the wife should "voluntarily submit" to the husband. He thinks that women and the planet they live on are there for men to use as they please. www.koat.com/article/trum...
Steve Pearce nominated to lead Bureau of Land Management
The White House nominated Pearce, the former U.S. rep and chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico
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November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Oil tycoon Steve Pearce is a disastrous pick to run the BLM. He's long pushed for the liquidation of public lands & championed efforts to obliterate national monuments. Just like Sen. Lee, he'll be chomping at the bit so sell our public lands off to corporations & billionaires. He's also a creep.
“We’re already seeing drought stress, with half the mature oaks in the valley dead,” Palma said. “The wall will only accelerate the collapse. You lose the trees, you lose the shade. The creek dries, the habitat dies. It’s a cascade of ecological devastation.”
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A jaguar, a wall, a sacred valley: What's at stake in San Rafael - AZ Luminaria
In late summer, a jaguar padded somewhere near the San Rafael Valley, a pristine grassland nestled between the Patagonia and Huachuca Mountains southeast of Tucson. Trail cameras monitored by Sky Isla...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“We’re already seeing drought stress, with half the mature oaks in the valley dead,” Palma said. “The wall will only accelerate the collapse. You lose the trees, you lose the shade. The creek dries, the habitat dies. It’s a cascade of ecological devastation.”
azluminaria.org/2025/10/07/a...
azluminaria.org/2025/10/07/a...
This interview with my dear colleague Russ McSpadden is a phenomenal roundup of our work to stop Trump's absurd and irreversibly destructive push to wall off Arizona's San Rafael Valley.
And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!
And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!
Biodiversity Battle in the Borderlands: I recently spoke with Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social from @biologicaldiversity.org. Hear stories about Jaguars, Ocelots, Bears, a huge number of bird species, and what you can do to help protect them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ech...
Episode 155: Jaguars, Justice, and the Border Wall – Stories from the Frontlines With Russ McSpadden
YouTube video by Rewilding Institute
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This interview with my dear colleague Russ McSpadden is a phenomenal roundup of our work to stop Trump's absurd and irreversibly destructive push to wall off Arizona's San Rafael Valley.
And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!
And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
Excited to share this! Join us to celebrate the release of BORDERLINGS, the debut book of poems from environmental activist RUSS MCSPADDEN, Saturday October 18, 2025, 6:30pm doors, 7pm reading and book signing. Free & all-ages.
Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson
Published by Artspeak Press.
Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson
Published by Artspeak Press.
September 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Excited to share this! Join us to celebrate the release of BORDERLINGS, the debut book of poems from environmental activist RUSS MCSPADDEN, Saturday October 18, 2025, 6:30pm doors, 7pm reading and book signing. Free & all-ages.
Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson
Published by Artspeak Press.
Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson
Published by Artspeak Press.
The Trump administration is declaring a bogus emergency and tossing aside decades of hard-won environmental protections to fast-track wall construction.
It's yet another senseless attack on the wildlife and communities of California’s borderlands.
inewsource.org/2025/09/24/h...
It's yet another senseless attack on the wildlife and communities of California’s borderlands.
inewsource.org/2025/09/24/h...
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build more border wall
Border Patrol apprehensions at the border are at record lows. The Trump administration is still fast-tracking border wall construction.
inewsource.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Trump administration is declaring a bogus emergency and tossing aside decades of hard-won environmental protections to fast-track wall construction.
It's yet another senseless attack on the wildlife and communities of California’s borderlands.
inewsource.org/2025/09/24/h...
It's yet another senseless attack on the wildlife and communities of California’s borderlands.
inewsource.org/2025/09/24/h...
Breaking: First new sections of Trump border wall are going up in the San Rafael Valley. This is an ecological catastrophe for the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, especially for the endangered jaguars and ocelots that move across the border here.
READ: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
READ: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
September 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Breaking: First new sections of Trump border wall are going up in the San Rafael Valley. This is an ecological catastrophe for the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, especially for the endangered jaguars and ocelots that move across the border here.
READ: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
READ: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Arizona's San Pedro River is being sucked dry. Yesterday, one of its main monitoring wells dried up, violating a court order guaranteeing water minimums.
Dire implications for myriad endangered species & millions of neo-tropical songbirds that depend on it.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Dire implications for myriad endangered species & millions of neo-tropical songbirds that depend on it.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
September 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Arizona's San Pedro River is being sucked dry. Yesterday, one of its main monitoring wells dried up, violating a court order guaranteeing water minimums.
Dire implications for myriad endangered species & millions of neo-tropical songbirds that depend on it.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Dire implications for myriad endangered species & millions of neo-tropical songbirds that depend on it.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
We’re suing DHS over their waiver of environmental laws to bulldoze a border wall across Arizona’s remote San Rafael Valley.
Jaguars, ocelots and a host of other species will be stopped dead in their tracks if this wall goes up.
Construction crews arrived this week.
Jaguars, ocelots and a host of other species will be stopped dead in their tracks if this wall goes up.
Construction crews arrived this week.
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We’re suing DHS over their waiver of environmental laws to bulldoze a border wall across Arizona’s remote San Rafael Valley.
Jaguars, ocelots and a host of other species will be stopped dead in their tracks if this wall goes up.
Construction crews arrived this week.
Jaguars, ocelots and a host of other species will be stopped dead in their tracks if this wall goes up.
Construction crews arrived this week.
Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.
The earth crushers have arrived at the San Rafael Valley. No words to describe the absurdity of building a wall across this peaceful, desolate wilderness.
September 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The earth crushers have arrived at the San Rafael Valley. No words to describe the absurdity of building a wall across this peaceful, desolate wilderness.
Breaking: Trump's DHS waives all enviro laws to wall off premier Texas Wildlife Refuge.
There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Trump Administration Waives Dozens of Laws to Bulldoze Border Wall Through Texas National Wildlife Refuge
Center for Biological Diversity: STARR COUNTY, Texas— The Trump administration today waived 31 environmental and public health laws to speed border wall construction through the Lower Rio Grande Valle...
biologicaldiversity.org
August 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Breaking: Trump's DHS waives all enviro laws to wall off premier Texas Wildlife Refuge.
There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Great piece on the ongoing militarization of Friendship Park by @yessfun.com.
Remarkable to read First Lady Pat Nixon's words “I hate to see a fence anywhere,” as she asked security to cut the barbed wire separating U.S. from MX to join the people on the other side. atmos.earth/once-a-rever...
Remarkable to read First Lady Pat Nixon's words “I hate to see a fence anywhere,” as she asked security to cut the barbed wire separating U.S. from MX to join the people on the other side. atmos.earth/once-a-rever...
Once A Revered Border Meeting Place, This Park Is Now Flanked By Cold Steel Beams | Atmos
San Diego and Tijuana's Friendship Park was once a sacred meeting ground for Mexican-U.S. families. It's now an impregnable bulwark.
atmos.earth
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Great piece on the ongoing militarization of Friendship Park by @yessfun.com.
Remarkable to read First Lady Pat Nixon's words “I hate to see a fence anywhere,” as she asked security to cut the barbed wire separating U.S. from MX to join the people on the other side. atmos.earth/once-a-rever...
Remarkable to read First Lady Pat Nixon's words “I hate to see a fence anywhere,” as she asked security to cut the barbed wire separating U.S. from MX to join the people on the other side. atmos.earth/once-a-rever...
Trump weighs in on Oak Flat, calling the Indigenous Tribes fighting it “Anti-American.”
Trump smearing us as ‘anti-American’. If Oak Flat is mined, the winners won't be Americans, and definitely not Native Americans, whose sacred site will be destroyed but two foreign mining giants, BHP (Australia) and Rio Tinto (UK) whose largest shareholder is a Chinese state-owned company.
August 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Trump weighs in on Oak Flat, calling the Indigenous Tribes fighting it “Anti-American.”
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
Then, read the full report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social to learn more.
This report documents the San Rafael Valley’s biodiversity, the species it sustains, and its indispensable role in the survival of endangered wildlife. ➡️ biodiv.us/4l1iGfb
This report documents the San Rafael Valley’s biodiversity, the species it sustains, and its indispensable role in the survival of endangered wildlife. ➡️ biodiv.us/4l1iGfb
August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Then, read the full report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social to learn more.
This report documents the San Rafael Valley’s biodiversity, the species it sustains, and its indispensable role in the survival of endangered wildlife. ➡️ biodiv.us/4l1iGfb
This report documents the San Rafael Valley’s biodiversity, the species it sustains, and its indispensable role in the survival of endangered wildlife. ➡️ biodiv.us/4l1iGfb
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
A recent Center report found that a new border barrier, in a remote part of Arizona, would threaten one of the most important remaining animal migration routes on the state’s southern border.
Check out the @nytimes.com feature about it. ⬇️
Check out the @nytimes.com feature about it. ⬇️
Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A recent Center report found that a new border barrier, in a remote part of Arizona, would threaten one of the most important remaining animal migration routes on the state’s southern border.
Check out the @nytimes.com feature about it. ⬇️
Check out the @nytimes.com feature about it. ⬇️
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.
July 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
We just sued the Trump administration for waiving dozens of environmental laws to speed border wall construction through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona’s Sky Island region.
More info: biodiv.us/462nspc
More info: biodiv.us/462nspc
July 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We just sued the Trump administration for waiving dozens of environmental laws to speed border wall construction through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona’s Sky Island region.
More info: biodiv.us/462nspc
More info: biodiv.us/462nspc
Proud to have co-authored this report with the amazing Russ McSpadden on the imminent harm border wall construction poses to the last best jaguar corridor between the U.S. & Mexico. This are has seen the highest number of jaguar detections anywhere in the U.S. biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm...
July 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Proud to have co-authored this report with the amazing Russ McSpadden on the imminent harm border wall construction poses to the last best jaguar corridor between the U.S. & Mexico. This are has seen the highest number of jaguar detections anywhere in the U.S. biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm...
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3
July 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3
BREAKING: Sen Lee's disgraceful attempt to sell off our public lands is stripped from the Senate budget bill.
A truly historic coalition of enviros, hunters, Tribal leaders, mountain bikers, MAGA rednecks & almost every American united to DEFEAT MIKE LEE. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
A truly historic coalition of enviros, hunters, Tribal leaders, mountain bikers, MAGA rednecks & almost every American united to DEFEAT MIKE LEE. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Victory: Sen. Lee Surrenders on Plan to Sell Off America’s Public Lands
Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— After massive outrage, Sen. Mike Lee announced late today that he is pulling his provision for a huge sell-off of America's public lands from the Republica...
biologicaldiversity.org
June 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
BREAKING: Sen Lee's disgraceful attempt to sell off our public lands is stripped from the Senate budget bill.
A truly historic coalition of enviros, hunters, Tribal leaders, mountain bikers, MAGA rednecks & almost every American united to DEFEAT MIKE LEE. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
A truly historic coalition of enviros, hunters, Tribal leaders, mountain bikers, MAGA rednecks & almost every American united to DEFEAT MIKE LEE. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
Reposted by Laiken Jordahl
BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee is STILL trying to sell off public land. He just released a FOURTH version of his reconciliation language, and it keeps getting worse. It doesn't look like this version has been reviewed by the parliamentarian, but he's still trying.
🧵:
www.energy.senate.gov/services/fil...
🧵:
www.energy.senate.gov/services/fil...
June 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee is STILL trying to sell off public land. He just released a FOURTH version of his reconciliation language, and it keeps getting worse. It doesn't look like this version has been reviewed by the parliamentarian, but he's still trying.
🧵:
www.energy.senate.gov/services/fil...
🧵:
www.energy.senate.gov/services/fil...
"It's just small percentage of barren BLM scrubland."
I wonder which one of Mike Lee's billionaire buddies is eyeing this stunning BLM parcel near Green River, Utah--land that would be up for auction under his Senate bill text--for a private ranch?
I wonder which one of Mike Lee's billionaire buddies is eyeing this stunning BLM parcel near Green River, Utah--land that would be up for auction under his Senate bill text--for a private ranch?
June 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"It's just small percentage of barren BLM scrubland."
I wonder which one of Mike Lee's billionaire buddies is eyeing this stunning BLM parcel near Green River, Utah--land that would be up for auction under his Senate bill text--for a private ranch?
I wonder which one of Mike Lee's billionaire buddies is eyeing this stunning BLM parcel near Green River, Utah--land that would be up for auction under his Senate bill text--for a private ranch?