This Right Wing Tree Hugger is pissed! But I wonder where my tree huggin' brethren on the left are? Alas, nowhere to be found.
"PHOENIX — Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then, she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night.
"I use night-vision goggles, and you could see them very clearly" — caravans of men with guns and huge backpacks full of drugs, trudging through the desert, Krebbs said. After her 10th or 11th time hiding in bushes and behind rocks, she abandoned her research.
"I'm just not willing to risk my neck anymore," she said.
Across the southwestern U.S. border and in northern Mexico, scientists such as Krebbs say their work is increasingly threatened by smugglers as tighter border security pushes trafficking into the most remote areas where botanists, zoologists and geologists do their research.
"In the last year, it's gotten much worse," said Jack Childs, who uses infrared cameras to study endangered jaguars in eastern Arizona. He loses one or two of the cameras every month to smugglers.
Richard Felger, another botanist, said he stays away from remote mountains in Sonora since being robbed and threatened on research trips.
"I got kind of allergic to pistols being held to my forehead," Felger said."
Yeah, really uncomfortable, I agree Felger.
And we're not lining up and shooting these bastards? Oh yeah I forgot, ask Ramos and Compean what happens if you take these dangerous criminals on.
