Border wall construction continues in southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley, causing senseless destruction. Cottonwoods estimated to be as old as our country have been toppled in Lochiel. And as you can see in this video interview with SIA’s Eamon Harrity, another shaded corner full of beautiful Arizona white oaks — home to coyotes, bobcats, porcupines, badgers, and many other Sky Island critters — is being destroyed. All this for a wall costing billions in taxpayer dollars and in a remote valley with virtually no people; based on SIA’s years of remote camera data, you’re 10x more likely to see a gray fox than another person.
In this short video, part of a series on border wall developments in the San Rafael Valley, SmallWheel Films’ Leslie Ann Epperson shows us what life’s really like at the border and what’s at stake. Learn more about our Border Wildlife Study and help us keep the cameras running.
Video by Leslie Ann Epperson, SmallWheel Films. Music selections from “Monsoon Mirage” composed by Grégory Rolland, and soundscape created by Lise Tanfin.