A three-strand barbed wire fence previously marked the U.S.-Mexico boundary in southern New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. A year ago, the Interior Secretary transferred 110,000 acres of federal land from the Bureau of Land Management to U.S. Army jurisdiction as an emergency step to secure the border and protect national resources. The transferred land includes parts of three counties and the southern terminus of the Continental Divide Trail, a 3,100-mile route from Canada to Mexico that follows mountain boundaries between river systems. The land transfer supports a border wall expansion funded through a package of tax and regulatory changes and increased border enforcement funding. The wall would transform the region, including the trail’s remote, rugged access and landscape.
"Building a wall here, though, would completely transform the region, including the southernmost edge of the Continental Divide Trail, whose rugged solitude and quiet beauty have long drawn hikers to the area. That transformation began earlier this year when the remote and rocky road leading to the trailhead, historically navigable onl"
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