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Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American

Birding Association. I am your host, Nate Swick. I want to circle back right off the bat

to an issue. We spent a fair bit of time on late last year and earlier this year, that being the proposed border wall in the

Rio Grande Valley of Texas. So there's been some news. I have good news and I have bad news.

I'll go ahead and give you the bad news first. If you've been following this issue, you probably

already know it, but the Supreme

Court has given the administration permission to use money that has already been allocated to the

Department of Defense to reallocate that money towards a barrier on the border. I'm not going to

lie, that is a setback.

Here's the good news, or, you know, relatively speaking.

It's not nearly as much as they were asking for earlier this year, so at most they will not be able to be as ambitious with these walls as the original plan was to be. That is a good thing. Obviously, no wall is the ideal solution. Fewer miles of wall. It's definitely better than more miles of wall. Second,

in the just news category, neither good or bad, probably a little more good than bad.

There are administrative roadblocks to continue to throw up and run out the clock,

which honestly is probably our best plan of attack at this point, certainly in Texas,

but also in Arizona, which we haven't talked about nearly as much,

but the plan to put a wall across

Arizona's last free-flowing river, the San Pedro River, which also happens to be an important

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