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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BREAKING: This morning masked federal agents from DHS entered private land in Lochiel, AZ to halt protesters from protecting the cottonwood tree-sit that has halted border wall construction for more than two months. The tree sit and the grandmother tree were destroyed. @biologicaldiversity.org

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Center for Biological Diversity and Patagonia Area Resource Alliance sued the Trump administration today over its Sept. 2 approval of the expansion of South32’s massive Hermosa mine onto federal public lands in southern Arizona. @biologicaldiversity.org

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BREAKING: We’ve documented significant clearing of protected desert land inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Quitobaquito Springs for the Trump admin’s second border wall that will run parallel to the existing 30-foot-tall wall. Read: sl1nk.com/jrbj7yv

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The historic border wall tree sit in southern Arizona just went binational with a tree sit in a second cottonwood, right on the international boundary, in Mexico. The tree sits block construction of a primary and secondary wall planned for the area. Read: patagoniaregionaltimes.org/border-wall-...

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Check out this new footage I found on one of my borderlands trail cameras of a jaguar roaming the wilds of southern AZ near a transnational wildlife movement corridor that is rapidly being closed by border wall construction. More here @biologicaldiversity.org: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just me talking to a Mexican spotted owl in a remote canyon in southern Arizona. Only a few thousand of these owls exist in the wild. In 1993 @biologicaldiversity.org Diversity won ESA protections for the species, and later secured critical habitat.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For more than 6 days now a tree sit in a cottonwood tree in the San Rafael Valley along the Arizona-Sonora border has halted construction of two parallel border walls.. This is the first-ever tree sit to halt border wall construction. Learn more @rally.forthevalley and @peccarrynotpig on IG.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham. Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Hope you can make it to the launch of Borderlings, my new book of poetry, this Saturday, Oct. 18, 6:30-8. Reading at 7. Signed copies available at event. If not, you can order a copy through ArtSpeak Press here: www.artspeakpress.com/shop/p/borde...

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

“…destruction of jaguar habitats amounts to a violation of the Constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment religious liberties of the Tohono O’odham communities.”

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

“…this resolution condemns the destruction, damage, and disruption of the natural habitat of jaguars on Tribal and federal lands that are aboriginal homelands of the O’odham; and contends that the…”

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

“…protect jaguar habitat, safeguard connectivity from border walls and reintroduce jaguars to their native range in the U.S. Southwest.”

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona has passed one of the most moving and powerful resolutions memorializing the role of the jaguar as a protector of the O’odham with deep cultural and spiritual ties. The resolution also calls on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to…”

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This interview with my dear colleague Russ McSpadden is a phenomenal roundup of our work to stop Trump's absurd and irreversibly destructive push to wall off Arizona's San Rafael Valley. And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Chasing a rainbow over the northernmost occupied jaguar habitat on the planet. Gotta love Arizona.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Excited to share this! Join us to celebrate the release of BORDERLINGS, the debut book of poems from environmental activist RUSS MCSPADDEN, Saturday October 18, 2025, 6:30pm doors, 7pm reading and book signing. Free & all-ages. Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson Published by Artspeak Press.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Great talking with you for the podcast Jack!

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Jack 🦫 @jackhumphrey.com · 19/09/2025

Biodiversity Battle in the Borderlands: I recently spoke with Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social from @biologicaldiversity.org. Hear stories about Jaguars, Ocelots, Bears, a huge number of bird species, and what you can do to help protect them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ech...

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Episode 155: Jaguars, Justice, and the Border Wall – Stories from the Frontlines With Russ McSpadden

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

BREAKING: The first segments of border wall have gone up in the San Rafael Valley, south of Tucson, Ariz. Construction crews have drilled at least two wells and have turned the area, a corridor for jaguars, pronghorn, bears, mountain lions, ocelots, porcupines, into an devastating industrial site.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Oh no. I think I fixed that. Thanks for letting me know.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Ahhh. I had no idea. I think I have it now. Thanks!

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

You might want to talk to a friend about a your white dude gripes and opinions, or a therapist. You have no idea about Oak Flat. It’s a religious site with specific ceremonies. You can settler-splain all you want. You are being creepy. Move along please.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Nice how it’s Native American Tribes that have to lose their land (again and again and again) for your material needs. 🤮 classic manifest destiny bullshit.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

There is still time. Will you help me - no matter what state - save all of THIS from foreign copper mining? Pls RT. By Aug. 27, send a quick email to BLM's AZ state & local office (tips and suggestions here: tinyurl.com/3ene6wa6).

This collage includes photos of : Desert purple martins atop mature saguaros in the heart of proposed mining activity; a view of the Galiuros with the setting sun turning them Sedona red; a close up of a baby fawn next to her mother; a Sonoran desert tortoise; an unfurling white Sacred Datura flower with interesting lavender-colored tips; a lowland or Chiricahuan leopard frog; a gray fox; view of saguaro and miles of undulating mountain vista; a pipevine swallowtail butterfly (black with gorgeous orange/yellow/blue dots)

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Trump smearing us as ‘anti-American’. If Oak Flat is mined, the winners won't be Americans, and definitely not Native Americans, whose sacred site will be destroyed but two foreign mining giants, BHP (Australia) and Rio Tinto (UK) whose largest shareholder is a Chinese state-owned company.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I don't remember that rock. Beautiful and speaks to some sort of violence.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

BREAKING: A US judge just denied our request for an injunction to the land transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper. Oak Flat, a sacred site of the Apache and part of the Tonto National Forest, is scheduled to be privatized on Tuesday. With the clock ticking, we have appealed to the 9th Circuit.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The Forest Service intends to convey Oak Flat, an Apache sacred site, to Resolution Copper on August 19. @biologicaldiversity.org, conservation allies & San Carlos Apache Tribe will be in fed court August 6 to argue for a halt to the Oak Flat Land Exchange until our lawsuits are resolved.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Wow. Thats beautiful. Did you make that!

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

“They…substituted corporate engagement for formal government-to-government consultation,” McSpadden said. “This…Project is a test case for whether BLM…has learned from SunZia or whether it will continue to fast track industry at the expense of tribes, ecosystems and public trust.”

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Conservation groups challenge BLM approval of Copper Creek Mine in Pinal County

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 01/08/2025

Then, read the full report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social to learn more. This report documents the San Rafael Valley’s biodiversity, the species it sustains, and its indispensable role in the survival of endangered wildlife. ➡️ biodiv.us/4l1iGfb

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 01/08/2025

A recent Center report found that a new border barrier, in a remote part of Arizona, would threaten one of the most important remaining animal migration routes on the state’s southern border. Check out the @nytimes.com feature about it. ⬇️

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Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great coverage by @dmain.bsky.social for the New York Times on how new border wall construction could destroy one of the last, best wildlife corridors for jaguars, ocelots, bears and puma in the U.S., and @biologicaldiversity.org ‘s lawsuit to halt it.

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Trump Wants a New Border Wall. It Would Block a Key Wildlife Corridor.

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's #TeamJavelina time... two sets of lil' reds in this squadron... One pair born three weeks ago, the smaller pair is kitten-sized ‼️ and recently born. Look at the umbilical cords and 🔊 up for lip-smacking and grunts! #cameratrap

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 09/07/2025

We just sued the Trump administration for waiving dozens of environmental laws to speed border wall construction through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona’s Sky Island region. More info: biodiv.us/462nspc

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 07/07/2025

Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New @biologicaldiversity.org report by my colleague @laikenjordahl.bsky.social and I on the impending border wall construction across a jaguar corridor linking Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. The jaguars El Jefe, Yo’oko and O:shad have relied on this corridor. biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm...

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Historically some 33 jaguar records exist in this corridor, including 3 jaguars since 2015: El Jefe, Yo’oko and O:shad.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

U.S. Customs & Border Protection has waived environmental, public health & Native American cultural protection laws, & awarded a > quarter of a billion dollar contract to Fisher Sand & Gravel to construct 27 miles of new border wall across critical habitat in the jaguar’s northern range.

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Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

We’re looking for a rad attorney for the Southwest Program at the Center for Biological Diversity. Love Southwest wildlife and wildlife? Take a look! biologicaldiversity.bamboohr.com/careers/121

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Staff or Senior Attorney - Southwest

Job Title: Staff Attorney or Senior Attorney Program: Southwest Employment Type: [X] Salary [ ] Hourly (exempt – this position is not eligible for overtime) [ ] ...

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