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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 20h

“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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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 11d

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!

Jack 🦫 @jackhumphrey.com · 18d

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

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 18d

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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 26d

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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Aug 26

No notes.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Aug 25

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.
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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...

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Aug 25

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...

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.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Aug 19

Trump weighs in on Oak Flat, calling the Indigenous Tribes fighting it “Anti-American.”

Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Aug 1

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

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Aug 1

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. ⬇️

Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · Jul 9

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.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Jul 9

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

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Jul 7

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

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jun 29

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...

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...

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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · Jun 28

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.

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Subtitle C—Lands
14 SEC. 50301. MANDATORY DISPOSAL OF BUREAU OF LAND
15 MANAGEMENT LAND FOR HOUSING.
16 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
17 (1) BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT LAND.—
18 The term ‘‘Bureau of Land Management land’’ has
19 the meaning given the term ‘‘public lands’’ in section
20 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management
21 Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702).
22 (2) COVERED FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘cov23 ered Federal land’’ means Bureau of Land Manage24 ment land selected for disposal under this section

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jun 28

"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?

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Senator Mike Lee is one hell of a coalition builder. He's got granola hippies locking arms with MAGA trophy hunters & motorheads, and the Center for Biological Diversity on the same side as Ryan Zinke. The whole West is united against him.

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · Jun 27

Don’t forget to call your Senators/Reps and demand they vote against the largest sell-off of public lands in U.S. history, which will likely be voted on tomorrow.

Today from Wyoming:

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