Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Senator
Tom Udall (D-NM) have introduced federal Wilderness legislation for Dona
Ana County, New Mexico -
S.1689, the Organ
Mountains Desert Peaks Wilderness Act. This legislation imposes federal
Wilderness designation, the most restrictive of all federal land
management designations, on 241,400 acres of lands in Dona Ana County,
along with 99,150 acres of National Conservation Area (NCA) designation.
This area is over 532 square miles of
land, nearly 14% of Dona Ana County, and a little over half the
size of the state of Rhode Island.
PFPOWH S.1689 Fact
Sheet
Abbreviated
summary of S.1689
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"The
presence of any wilderness on the Mexican border is a danger to the security
of the United States"
Jim Switzer,
National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers |
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PFPOWH
OPPOSES THIS LEGISLATION.
THIS
LEGISLATION IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR COMMUNITY,
OUR STATE OR OUR COUNTY. |
As of July, 2010, more than 28,000 people
have been killed in
drug
related violence since 2006. We do not want create a smuggling
corridor in our county that will invite this type of criminal violence to move
in to our community.
Attacks on the Mexican government and civilians, including journalists,
are escalating.
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Mountains Desert Peaks Wilderness Act.
