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FRANKLIN MOUNTAINS
The Southern Border of US-Mexico consists of 2,000 miles of borderland and is one of the
continents most biologically diverse regions. Even though deserts may look mundane and even “dead”, they are very much thriving and alive. Plants, animals, and insects live in a fragile
ecosystem that requires natural migrations along our border lines. Desert plants such as the
ocotillo (next page, right), with the ability to grow 20 feet tall and live as long as humans, blooms
with bright red flowers in spring, a source of water and food to hummingbirds and other desert
creatures that have evolved with it for millennia. Anything that would possibly obstruct the
natural migration of 2,000 miles of ecosystems would have devastating effects on our planet.
