[PCA] NEWS: Feds sue to take nature preserve land for border fence
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Dec 30 09:58:52 CST 2008
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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