Environmentalists eager to save endangered

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Wildlife areas on border let in outlaws

Heavily armed outlaws are threatening national parks and other public lands along the Mexican border, where terrain and environmental concerns limit the range of U.S. Border Patrol agents and are complicating efforts to build a barrier ordered by Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security has allocated about $50 million to counter the ecological impact on land managed by the Interior Department and other government agencies.

But environmentalists, energized by the Democratic leadership of Congress and the White House, are pushing for additional conservation measures that Border Patrol agents fear will make it easier for Mexican gangs to operate.
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One of the lawmakers, Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, said the group was responding to complaints from border agents and other federal law enforcement officers.

"We seem to have seceded certain parts of the United States to drug runners, smugglers and some of the most vicious cartels operating along the border," said Mr. Bishop, ranking Republican on the House Natural Resources subcommittee on national parks, forests and public lands.

As reports of violence along the border increase, the GAO study will present a comprehensive look at security in "vast wilderness regions," Mr. Bishop said. "We want to know: Is there some way to quantify the problem so it's not just anecdotal."

Environmentalists are eager to save endangered plants and animals.
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Conservationists argue that the construction of fences, roads and extensive lights would lead to the demise of ecologically diverse areas, and business leaders fear that an effective barrier would destroy the economies of border cities by preventing Mexicans from crossing into the U.S. to shop.

About 1.1 million acres of federal wildlife refuge, two national forests, five American Indian reservations and eight national parks account for more than 40 percent of the border region.

Mexican drug cartels are adept at exploiting gaps in the border.

Drug runners have spotters on the mountainsides watching federal law enforcement officers on the roads below. Along the San Diego border, drug spotters sit on the hillsides with binoculars and guns taunting agents. Mexican drug runners account for more than 90 percent of cocaine and more than half of the heroin entering the U.S.

Inside Arizona's Tohono O'odham Nation, spotters sit high in the canyon crevasses inside the U.S. to guide contraband and smugglers through the American Indian reservation, which is the size of Connecticut.
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