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Krista Schyler

Krista Schlyer is a conservation photographer and writer living in the Washington, DC area. For the past decade she has documented the rich biodiversity of the United States-Mexico borderlands and the impacts of U.S. border policy on the region. She is the author of Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the 2013 National Outdoor Book Award and Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography. You can see more of her work at KristaSchlyer.com.

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This section of border wall, originally constructed in 2008, stretches from the west bank of the San Pedro River into the foothills of the Huachuca Mountains in Arizona, a critical wildlife corridor between Sky Islands like the one visible in the background, in Sonora, Mexico. Photograph by Krista Schyler

Up Against the Wall

By Julian Smith & Krista Schyler

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September 6, 2017

The U.S.-Mexico borderlands contain some of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in either country. Trump’s wall would imperil all of it.