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Ethnobotanist Benito Treviño at his property, Rancho Lomitas, located 8miles north of Rio Grande City, Texas

Borderland Rebellion

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August 15, 2018

From climate change to a border wall, the oft-overlooked but critically important scrubland plants in South Texas face myriad threats. To save them, this self-taught naturalist is taking matters into his own hands.

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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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Feature

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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.