Renewable Revolution

Quote from: agelbert on March 01, 2013, 12:51:11 pm

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The Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity just released a new video depicting destruction by Border Patrol vehicles driving through Organ Pipe National Monument and the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge -- both designated wilderness areas in Arizona, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Cyndi Tuell, a Tucson-based conservation advocate with the Center, is featured in the video, called Too Many Tracks.
 
The ruts, tracks and new roads slicing through once-pristine wilderness are in areas where motorized vehicle travel is prohibited by law. In 2011 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service documented more than 8,000 miles of vehicle tracks and roads in the refuge and linked much of that disturbance to U.S Border Patrol operations.
 
"These roads and vehicle tracks cause tremendous damage to some of America's wildest public lands," says Cyndi. "These are beautiful, fragile desert ecosystems that will take decades or even centuries to recover."
 

Link to vimeo video here:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2013/vimeo--02-2013.html

No doubt the meatheads get off on it too. Is there any more destructive entity on earth, in the history of the earth, than our Federal Government? Nope. (Unless you count a few meteorites, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.)