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"An endangered wolf went in search of a mate. The border wall blocked him"
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:34 pm
I honestly say this as someone who loves the environment and loves animals... but seriously f*ck this wolf, and build the damn wall.
Nat Geo
Nat Geo
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BYDOUGLAS MAIN
PUBLISHED JANUARY 21, 2022
8 MIN READ
In late 2021 an endangered Mexican gray wolf set out on an epic journey.
Known as Mr. Goodbar, the male had months earlier left his pack in eastern Arizona in search of his own territory and a mate. He headed south and east, through the Chihuahuan Desert, a vast, biodiverse expanse of grasslands and shrublands interspersed with mountain ranges and valleys.
The lanky canine, sporting a mix of silvery brown fur and not yet two years old, passed by the outskirts of Las Cruces, New Mexico, on November 22. The land is wide open and speckled with creosote, yucca, and cacti. Before him were distant peaks, including now extinct volcanoes and craters of the East Potrillo Mountains, the southern tip of which nearly reaches the Mexican border. Guided by instinct through the ancient territory of his kind, he headed that direction.
But he soon found himself at a perplexing impasse: The U.S.-Mexico border. Just one year prior, the land was open, except for a short vehicle barrier, a type of low porous fence meant to stop cars and trucks from illegal crossings. But now he found it blocked by a 30-foot-high wall, composed of massive steel beams separated by four-inch gaps, admitting only the tiniest of animals. (Learn more: Arizona’s border wall will include openings too small for many animals.)
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Most of New Mexico’s border is now flanked by this fence, built from 2018 to 2020 under Donald Trump’s administration, a fact lost on Mr. Goodbar, who simply kept moving west. In all, he spent nearly five days migrating along the wall, sometimes briefly switching directions, presumably trying to head south around the obstacle. Eventually, about 23 miles west of where he encountered it, he gave up and headed back north.
The wolf’s path, tracked by a GPS collar affixed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is among the first bits of concrete proof that the wall alters the movement of free-ranging wildlife, says Michael Robinson, a wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group based in Arizona.
“I wasn’t surprised that it happened, because we’d predicted it,” Robinson says. “But I was bummed out.”
The travails of Mr. Goodbar confirm what conservationists and scientists have been warning about for years: That movements of all large animals will be disrupted by the border wall. That includes not just wolves but endangered Sonoran pronghorn, jaguars, ocelots, and bighorn sheep, and more common species such as mountain lions, bobcats, mule deer, and many more.
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Overt border wall construction has ceased, though Customs and Border Protection announced on December 20 that it will be “closing small gaps” in the wall, though what that entails is unclear. Several environmental and tribal groups have sued the federal government to stop construction, attempts which have mostly failed.
Lonely journey
Mr. Goodbar is now in Gila National Forest, near where he started his journey. It’s unknown if he’ll strike out again for new territory or try to establish a place near his home range.
In 2017, two wolves crossed into the United States from Mexico. One passed without issue across the border in nearly the exact spot that Mr. Goodbar tried and failed to get through. Another was Mr. Goodbar’s mother: The female made her way north near Douglas, Arizona, past San Bernardino Valley, a world hotspot for bee diversity, which is also now blocked by new wall. She was captured in Arizona based on complaints from a rancher and gave birth in captivity to Mr. Goodbar at Sedgwick County Zoo in Kansas, which gave the wolf his name.
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Conservationists and scientists urge more action to address the plight of borderland animals like these wolves, emphasizing that the wall seriously fragments populations and blocks ancient migration routes. “This is an event that I believe needs a lot more attention,” Traphagen says. “This is just the beginning.”
Robinson once loved visiting the area where Mr. Goodbar tried to pass, loping in the footsteps of countless animals present and past.
“It’s a sublime landscape, affecting, full of life,” he says. But the 30-foot barrier cut through the landscape changed his experience.
“It breaks my heart to go down to the wall,” he says.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:35 pm to burger bearcat
Another Lone Wolf story.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:37 pm to burger bearcat
But locking down millions of people in their homes is just fine.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:39 pm to burger bearcat
We should accommodate a lone wolf..
Millions of sex trafficked and slave labored Latinos and millions of Chinese Fentanyl addicted Americans be damned..
MS13 and the cartels say thank you to the propagandized bighearted useful idiots.
Millions of sex trafficked and slave labored Latinos and millions of Chinese Fentanyl addicted Americans be damned..
MS13 and the cartels say thank you to the propagandized bighearted useful idiots.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:39 pm to burger bearcat
Think the feds will take equally ridiculous excuses for why I can't pay my taxes?
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:48 pm to burger bearcat
I'm an animal guy. I like wolves. There are some in my neighborhood. The problem I have is with 'endangered'. They are not. This one is called a Mexican Grey Wolf. Big deal. What if the next one is protected because it's 'the common every day wolf that has a red dot on it's left paw. They may become extinct!'
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:49 pm to burger bearcat
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In all, he spent nearly five days migrating along the wall, sometimes briefly switching directions, presumably trying to head south around the obstacle. Eventually, about 23 miles west of where he encountered it, he gave up and headed back north.
I was told walls don’t work
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:53 pm to burger bearcat
I'd rather have him cross the border than 2.5 million COVID infected drifters packing drugs and consuming my tax dollars...
This post was edited on 1/22/22 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 1/22/22 at 2:56 pm to burger bearcat
I'm down to stop these wolves from crossing the border if it stops the coyotes!
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:00 pm to THRILLHO
The wolf just needs to use the border crossing like normal people.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:02 pm to burger bearcat
It was trying to make some anchor puppies so they could get its green card
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:04 pm to burger bearcat
So we should allow an endless stream of fricking trash and criminals to suck up increasingly limited resources?
No.
frick that wolf.
No.
frick that wolf.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:08 pm to burger bearcat
Was he vaccinated. That’s all that matters.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:18 pm to TheHarahanian
But, but, what about the coyotes carrying little immigrant kids!!!!!
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:22 pm to burger bearcat
The news who literally cried wolf
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:35 pm to burger bearcat
FIFYA:
alternative headline for same story:
Trump's border wall saves Texans and their cattle from being eaten alive by wolves!
alternative headline for same story:
Trump's border wall saves Texans and their cattle from being eaten alive by wolves!
This post was edited on 1/22/22 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:46 pm to Dawg7730
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Was he vaccinated. That’s all that matters.
The wolf should have tagged along with the unvaxxed drove of illegals. Safe passage fully paid by Brandon to any range of his choosing.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:50 pm to burger bearcat
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a world hotspot for bee diversity, which is also now blocked by new wall.
How high can a bee fly? Surely more than 30 feet.
This is ridiculous.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 3:53 pm to burger bearcat
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Most of New Mexico’s border is now flanked by this fence, built from 2018 to 2020 under Donald Trump’s administration, a fact lost on Mr. Goodbar
And apparently the entire media too. They loved to say how Trump didn’t build any wall.
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