[PCA] NEWS: Feds sue to take nature preserve land for border fence

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6186460.html

Feds sue to take nature preserve land for border fence
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press
Dec. 30, 2008, 12:49AM

McALLEN -- The Department of Homeland Security has sued The Nature 
Conservancy to condemn land in a South Texas nature preserve for the 
border fence.

The conservancy's Lennox Foundation Southmost Preserve, which includes 
more than 1,000 acres along the Rio Grande near Brownsville, is home to a 
rare grove of native sabal palms, a South Texas native plant nursery for 
reforestation projects and habitat for the endangered ocelot and 
jaguarundi.

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