Day 10: Tree Sitters Saving Old Growth Cottonwoods: Arizona Border Wall Resistance

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'Privileged to have gotten such a gift We are honored to be here protecting the remaining grandmother tree.' -- Kate Scott, Day 10

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"Day #9 of the tree sit protecting our cottonwood grandmother tree from being destroyed for border wall construction.
“The Cottonwood Poet” by Tom Valles read by a grandmother tree protector. Art is resistance. Poetry is resistance."

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It is now Day 8 for the Tree Sitter and Supporters.

The border wall contractors in the Tucson region who are responsible for the destruction and new surveillance technology are: BCCG, Fisher Sand and Gravel, Sundt Construction, AIS and SLSCO. Scroll down to read more about the contractors.

Seventh Day: Tree Sitters Halt Border Wall Construction in Arizona

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Today, on the seventh day at Grandmother Camp, with their tree sitter halting construction of the border wall, the tree sitters said, "We are all the grandmother. We have a responsibility to defend not only ourselves, but our relatives that are on the chopping block, and to also pay respects to our ancestors that have already fallen."

Grandmother cottonwood, home to nesting threatened birds, cut down by the death claws for border wall construction in southeastern Arizona. Image from video at https://www.facebook.com/reel/2474426089711333

Border Wall Construction Destroying Cottonwoods, 'Green Ribbon' Running Through the Desert

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 4, 2026

LOCHIEL, Arizona -- Day 6 at Grandmother Camp, there was no border wall construction since the tree sit began last Wednesday in this rich landscape. The cottonwood trees are the nesting place of migratory birds, including the rare Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

"We've lost three grandmothers that took 250 years to grow. They were obliterated by the monstrous machinations in four hours," Kate Scott, Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center, said on Monday from the tree sit in Lochiel, about 25 miles east of Nogales, and southeast of Tucson.

"But I just saw a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, federally threatened crying over this beautiful meadow."

"This remaining Grandmother, that threatened bird -- we remain hopeful that our efforts here on the ground will be met with thoughtful reasonable conversation and a new direction for Lochiel community," Kate said.

"This remaining Grandmother represents hope and resistance."

Tree sit in the path of the death machines. Photo Center for Biological Diversity

Federal Contractors Begin Border Construction in Big Bend National Park

Big Bend Destruction by Border Wall Contractors. Screenshot by Censored New

New Mexico threatens to revoke licenses of contractors drilling water wells in drought-stricken New Mexico. The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed for an injunction to halt the Trump administration from seizing its tribal land for the border wall in Arizona, pointing out that only Congress can diminish its land. Border Wall construction will destroy O'odham burial places and sacred sites. Today, contractors are destroying the fragile tree life at Big Bend in Texas. Today is Day 10 of a tree sitter and supporters halting border wall contractors in Lochiel, Arizona, east of Nogales. -- Censored News

Federal Contractors Begin Border Construction in Big Bend National Park

“This is the most heinous attack on an American national park in generations,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.

By Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, August 7, 2026

TERLINGUA, Texas— Bulldozers broke ground today on border barrier and road construction in Big Bend National Park amid widespread bipartisan opposition. Videos shared with the Center for Biological Diversity show contractors plowing through native vegetation along the Rio Grande’s riparian corridor, with the iconic Santa Elena Canyon visible in the background.

“This is the most heinous attack on an American national park in generations,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.

Tohono O'odham Nation Presents Case Against Border Wall

Tohono O'odham Nation Presents Case Against Border Wall

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 3, 2026

SELLS, Arizona -- The Tohono O'odham Nation said attorneys argued a strong case in opposition to the construction of a border wall on O'odham land, pointing out that only Congress can deplete its land. The Nation's attorneys in Washington are seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent the border wall construction by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

"Only Congress has the authority to diminish the reservation, not DHS," the Tohono O'odham Nation said in a statement on Monday. "Even the law that authorized construction did not include any explicit approval from Congress to take the Nation's land."

Tohono O'odham Airspace: Combat Jets Endanger O'odham. Mystery Plane Appears.

Combat jets endangers O'odham lives. Dassault Mirage F1CR jet image by Flight Radar.

Tohono O'odham Airspace: Combat Jets Endanger O'odham. Mystery Plane Appears.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 4, 2026

TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION -- The lives of O'odham living on the Tohono O'odham Nation continue to be endangered by low-flying, supersonic combat jets in training, with the supersonic blasts breaking plaster in traditional homes. The dangerous maneuvers led by a private company are endangering lives and the environment with flares from jets flying at dangerous speeds.

On Monday, there was also an unidentified small aircraft flying in circles above the Tohono O'odham at the border before dawn. This is where Trump plans to build the border wall on sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation land. The tribe is fighting it with a federal lawsuit.