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...surprisingly, this wall has wreaked havoc on the ecosystems of the area. It cuts off migration routes for species such as the Sonoma Pronghorn, already endangered, whose population has crashed to as few as 31 individuals. If congress had not exempted the border patrol from the ESA, this damage would have been sufficient to stop or dramatically alter the construction plans. Instead, building the wall has categorically ignored environmental damage and, as a result, threatened the survival of the only known pair of breeding jaguars in the United States...

Author: By A. patrick Behrer | Title: Reflecting on the Wall | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...employment for more than 100 people and a steady source of municipal income, Hardin and a neighboring town issued revenue bonds to finance its construction and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre (16 hectare) field at the edge of town where pronghorn antelope once grazed, they built it. But nobody came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Montana Town That Wanted to Be Gitmo | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Convinced that it would provide steady employment for over 100 locals, as well as accompanying economic benefits, the residents financed it through the sale of revenue bonds and turned it over to a for-profit prison-management corporation. On a 40-acre field at the edge of town where pronghorn antelope once grazed, they built it. But nobody came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Montana Town That Wanted to Be Gitmo | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...miles in Arizona, 153 in Texas, 76 in California and 12 in New Mexico. Pedestrian fences have so far proved useful in inhibiting human traffic, but conservationists and others worry they limit access to the habitat for endangered species such as jaguars and the antelope-like Sonoran Desert pronghorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Border Security Bad for Nature? | 5/28/2007 | See Source »

...could not resist reminding us that the species Bison bison is not a true buffalo [March 26]. I have been hearing this for about 65 years. I do not understand the zeal for calling the animals bison rather than buffalo when similar misidentities are usually ignored. For example, the pronghorn antelope is really not an antelope, and the jackrabbit is not a rabbit. Let's give bison a rest and let the buffalo roam-along with other common usages. Russell Schofiel, Glendale, Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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