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...illegal aliens. "Some days now, we see zero coming through here," he said. East of San Luis, the triple fence becomes a double line, then a single tall fence, until it reaches the rugged Gila mountains. Beyond the range, the fence resumes, but now it's in the deep Sonoran Desert. The design here is steel posts, about 4 ft. (1 m) high, filled with concrete to thwart plasma torches and linked by surplus railroad iron. This fence is intended to stop cars, not walkers--but anyone crossing out here must be ready for a parched hike of 30 miles...
...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...
Imagine an area the size of the state of Rhode Island with only one wagon track crossing its vast emptiness, an 860,000-acre wildlife refuge in Arizona's Sonoran Desert along the Mexican border that comprises 56 miles of what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls the "loneliest international boundary in the continent." In fact, you'll have to imagine it, because while that description of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge still appears on its web site, there are now 1,200 miles of illegal roads and footpaths created by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants scarring...
Viewed from a Black Hawk helicopter 1,000 feet up, there's no sign of the Mexican border in this southwest corner of Arizona's Sonoran Desert. No line in the sand. No fence. Not even a road. Yet it's clear we are flying over a major international thoroughfare. Hundreds of shiny footpaths and tire tracks weave through the desert below, where the temperature on the ground routinely reaches 115? F in the summer. You need to drink a gallon of water an hour to survive in heat like that, and the illegal aliens and smugglers who pounded these...
...right effect is no quick fling for Woods: "To create a truly intimate moment with lasting impact, we need many personal insights, and that takes time." A resort favorite is a candle made from the flower of the Queen of the Night cactus, which is unique to the Sonoran and Chihuahua Deserts. The cactus only blooms one midsummer's night each year?but the afterglow of your Baja love-in will hopefully endure a bit longer than that. tel: (52-624) 144 2800; www.lasventanas.com