The topic of the border wall between the United States and
Mexico continues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news
media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and
over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population
have heard widely varying opinions about the wall's effect on
illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war.
But what about the wall's effect on the Sonoran pronghorn
antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the
ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep? In unforgettable images
and evocative text, "Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the
Border Wall" helps readers understand all that is at stake.
As Krista Schlyer explains, the remoteness of this region from
most US citizens' lives, coupled with the news media's focus on
illegal immigration and drug violence, has left many with an
incomplete picture. As she reminds us, this largely isolated
natural area, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of
Mexico, hosts a number of rare ecosystems: Arizona's last
free-flowing river, the San Pedro; the grasslands of New Mexico,
some of the last undeveloped prairies on the continent; the single
most diverse birding area in the US, located along the lower Rio
Grande River in Texas; and habitat and migration corridors for some
of both nations' most imperiled species.?In documenting the changes
to the ecosystems and human communities along the border while the
wall was being built, Schlyer realized that the impacts of
immigration policy on wildlife, on landowners, and on border towns
were not fully understood by either policy makers or the general
public. The wall not only has disrupted the ancestral routes of
wildlife; it has also rerouted human traffic through the most
pristine and sensitive of wildlands, causing additional
destruction, conflict, and death--without solving the original
problem.
To view a book trailer for "Contintental Divide," please
visithttp: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou1Uh-SDAFs
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