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Border Project Meets Trees With Long Tenure
· New York time
Activists in Arizona are protesting the removal of 250-year-old cottonwood trees for border wall expansion. A judge has temporarily halted expansion in and near Big Bend National Park in Texas. The developments put environmental concerns and construction decisions alongside the border policy debate. The Texas halt is temporary, not a final resolution of the wider dispute. A tree that old supplies a perspective rarely accommodated by a project calendar. Governments discuss timelines; the cottonwoods have already lived through several generations of people insisting that the current plan is the permanent one.
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