Military Takeover Could Extend Miles North of Border, Conservationists Warn

Army soldier at the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, New Mexico

The Trump administration’s plan to transfer federal land along the southern border to the U.S. military includes lands in New Mexico that extend well beyond the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot strip of land along much of the border, signaling to conservationists that additional public lands in Arizona are also vulnerable to Army takeover. That could […]