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TexasTowelie

(111,289 posts)
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 11:15 PM Feb 2020

South Texas county prohibits border-wall surveyors from entering lands near bird sanctuary

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The commissioners of a small, rural county in South Texas have voted to block the federal government from surveying for a border wall on public lands near a coveted bird sanctuary.

The five-member Zapata County Commissioners’ Court on Monday unanimously voted not to grant “right of entry for survey and site assessment to the U.S. Government for county land near San Ygnacio,” according to the agenda item.

San Ygnacio is home to a popular bird and butterfly sanctuary located on a narrow strip of land along the Rio Grande about 40 miles south of Laredo, Texas. It boasts one of the best bird-viewing areas for the tiny white-collared seedeater and scissor-tailed flycatcher, as well as various butterfly species, like the American snout. The seedeater is only found in the United States in this part of South Texas.

The land was donated to the county a few years ago for the sanctuary, Zapata County Judge Joe Rathmell told commissioners, according to an audio recording of Monday’s meeting obtained by Border Report.

Zapata County is mid-way between Laredo and McAllen, Texas, and is mostly rural ranchlands that are home to a population of just about 15,000.

Read more: https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/the-border-wall/south-texas-county-prohibits-border-wall-surveyors-from-entering-lands-near-bird-sanctuary/

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South Texas county prohibits border-wall surveyors from entering lands near bird sanctuary (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2020 OP
That's great news! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2020 #1
Will MF45 send in he Marines? sinkingfeeling Feb 2020 #2
Yay! Karadeniz Feb 2020 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,297 posts)
1. That's great news!
Thu Feb 27, 2020, 11:29 PM
Feb 2020

I hope they can keep winning. I've been following the story about the Butterfly Refuge and it's very disturbing.

Stop those wall-building bastards!

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