Good luck with the protests - I had forgotten about the Sabal Palm property
- as I recall quite a bit of protest went into preserving that access - and
it worked:)
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Madeleine Sandefur <madi.s44@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Anthony - there is already an example in Texas where access to the public
IS allowed behind the wall: Sabal Palm Sanctuary in Brownsville. However,
it may be that perhaps that is the exception, because I believe that is
private property and not federal land.
There are groups here in the RGV who are actively fighting this - there
was a protest there today, for example. We can't lose Santa Ana -- the
Winter Texans will riot!
Madeleine Sandefur
Laguna Vista
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On Jul 15, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
the
Greetings Tim Brush:
Based on my experience with portions of the wall erected in Arizona and
Texas there is a) a 50-100 meter wide strip of land - on both sides of
wall, when practiceable - cleared of vegetation and b) no access beyondthe
wall. The land becomes, essentially, U.S. territory ceded to Mexico withwall.
access limited to local landowners (sometimes) and federal law
enforcement. There are good stretches of birding in west Texas that have
already been stranded on the other side of existing stretches of the
federal
National Wildlife Refuges and National Parks are going to be easier
pickings for the build the wall folk ... as the land is already in
hands; they don't have to worry about court cases as much when eminentPatrol
domain is not involved.
It is possible, I suppose, that some kind of special access will be
arranged for this particular refuge but it wouldn't be consistent with
existing practice.
On the positive side, the human footprint (assuming that The Border
does an effective job of policing the far side of the wall) might beaccessibility
greatly reduced and the area beyond the wall might become better habitat
for wildlife.
As somebody else put it, elections have consequences. As I will put it,
this particular consequence has slid under the radar.
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Timothy Brush <timothy.brush@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This is of great concern to me, since it would greatly limit
destroyand would impact some habitat directly. I personally doubt it would
thethe refuge habitat, since as I understand it the wall would be built on
onlevee itself. For those not familiar, the levee/canal runs essentially
nicethe north side of Santa Ana, although the refuge headquarters and some
forhabitat is on the north side. So far I haven't seen anything about a
general vegetation removal from this 2000 acre refuge--if anyone knows
anything, I would be greatly interested.
What I am really interested in/concerned about) is the plans (if any)
complex,access by the public (and even perhaps refuge staff), since that could
become a lot more difficult! Santa Ana is one of the few spots where one
can see anything like the native Valley riparian woodland/wetland
othersand it is obviously visited in very large numbers of visiting
birders/ecotourists as well as local residents and school groups.
Again, I do not want to minimize the concern over this crown jewel and I
am personally against a wall there--at the very least, it should be the
last place to put a wall, not the first one in this new bout. I (and
itI am sure) will be checking into it. If there was little or no access,
freelists.org]might destroy the functionality of the refuge.
Regards,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
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