San Rafael Valley
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Oct 12, 2026
Casey EverettHOST
Right
Tyler SladenGUEST
... and so now Arizona, you can't, like if you go down to the San Rafael Valley and try to hunt merns, you will not be...
Tyler SladenGUEST
It'll, you'll be hard-pressed to find a canyon without a dog box parked at the end of it.
Casey EverettHOST
Hm.
Kyle MacLachlanGUEST
[laughs]
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
Which is why he is building 27 miles of new wall in Arizona's San Rafael Valley along the border with Mexico.
speaker_6NARRATOR
We will also seal the border and stop the migrant invasion.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
But some people want our border wide open for any invaders.
Russ McSpaddenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, that would be really uncomfortable.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
Yeah.
Russ McSpaddenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But the San Rafael Valley was really one of the most important jaguar corridors left in the United States with connection to the breeding population in Mexico.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
I'm sorry, jaguars? I've heard about mules and I've heard about coyotes, but I haven't heard about jaguars.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
They're also physical structures that Donald Trump is using to avoid intimacy with immigrants.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
Which is why he is building 27 miles of new wall in Arizona's San Rafael Valley along the border with Mexico.
speaker_0NARRATOR
We will also seal the border and stop the migrant invasion.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
But some people want our border wide open for any invaders.
Russ McSpaddenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm, yeah, that would be really uncomfortable.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
Yeah.
Russ McSpaddenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But the San Rafael Valley is really one of the most important jaguar corridors left in the United States, with connection to the breeding population in Mexico.
Grace KuhlenschmidtCORRESPONDENT
I'm sorry, jaguars? I've heard about mules and I've heard about coyotes, but I haven't heard about jaguars.
Adelita GrijalvaGUEST
Mm-hmm
Lauren GilgerHOST
... pieces of the Coronado National Forest, Buenos Aires National Refuge, parts of the San Rafael Valley as well.
Lauren GilgerHOST
I mean, what do you make of the scale of this?
Adelita GrijalvaGUEST
Well, they're trying to limit access because they don't want anyone to be paying attention to what they're actually doing.
Savitri DHOST
Dubbed the Grandmother Tree, the cottonwood cut down Monday was hundreds of years old.
Savitri DHOST
It was one of several that lined the edge of Border Road, a dirt road that runs along the U.S.-Mexico border in a remote area of Arizona in the San Rafael Valley about 25 miles east of Nogales.
Savitri DHOST
After three cottonwoods were cut down in June, activists set up a tree sit in an attempt to protect the last remaining Grandmother Tree.
Savitri DHOST
At least one person sat or slept in the tree at all times.
Sam SacksHOST
But the relief was short-lived, as border wall continued going up elsewhere in areas that are also environmentally and culturally significant.
Sam SacksHOST
Lake and Jordahl, with the Center for Biodiversity, documented crews in Arizona building a border wall through the San Rafael Valley.
Sam SacksHOST
The project will put endangered jaguars that transit the area at risk.
Sam SacksHOST
Crews were also seen uprooting and hauling away ancient cottonwood trees that had existed long before a border was even drawn up.
John WashingtonGUEST
They can really change the way that the federal government is trying to implement a lot of these tactics.
John WashingtonGUEST
And a 500 million dollar construction project is being halted right now and has been for 50 days which is really inspiring i think again like it like when we're talking about the people who are organizing around the airports again this was mostly queer folks who are on the ground who have been doing tree sits or been organizing in southern arizona for a long time saw this was happening and they said like look we can't allow this to proceed and so they descended on this beautiful, pristine valley called the San Rafael Valley, where nobody crosses.
John WashingtonGUEST
It's not a migrant crossing corridor.
John WashingtonGUEST
It's way out of the way for people coming from the south.