🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mar 26, 3:57 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
> Arizona Daily Star
> Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.26.2007
>
> In 2003, a study found that trails blazed by illegal border crossers had
> denuded vegetation on 279 acres of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife
> Refuge, and that more than half of 1,315 miles of makeshift paths lay in
> habitat of an endangered cactus.
>
> Today, refuge officials want to do a follow-up study, but they don't
> have the money, refuge Manager Mitch Ellis said.
>
> This is one of many examples of how federal budget cuts have crimped, in
> some cases severely, the operations of Arizona's nine national wildlife
> refuges, the refuge managers say.
> Overall, the cuts are severe enough that the refuges no longer meet
> their federal mandates to protect, preserve and manage natural resources
> under their control, managers of the Cabeza Prieta, Buenos Aires and
> Cibola refuges said last week.
>
> Cut!
>
> "When you couple that with deficits we are in, and the fact that we are
> going to be in for some rigorous times, it makes sense to try to get our
> house in order as best we can," Harvey said.
> But these cuts have meant that bird and mammal surveys, firefighting
> capabilities, restoration work, invasive-species control, trail
> maintenance and, above all, monitoring and combating problems caused by
> illegal entrants and U.S. Border Patrol vehicles pursuing them have been
> cut back, refuge managers say.
>
> http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/175308
> --
> Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
> For a Secure Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/

Every aspect of America society suffers from the flood of illegal
aliens.

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