Journeys of Discovery: Environmentalists see a light at the end of Trump’s border wall

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 2 p.m.

Environmental activist Laiken Jordahl is a borderlands campaigner with the Tuscon, Arizona based Center for Biological Diversity . Jordahl has painfully followed the building of the border wall with Mexico and its attendent ecological damage. This past December, President-elect Joe Biden nominated Deb Haaland , a first-term New Mexico congresswoman and a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI). Environmental activists are hopeful that Haaland will be