Episode 180: Activists Take to the Canopy to Defend Centuries-old Cottonwood, Cats, and Connectivity

<a href="rewilding.org/episode-180-activists-take-to-th…; title="Episode 180: Activists Take to the Canopy to Defend Centuries-old Cottonwood, Cats, and Connectivity" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="300" src="rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats…; class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Photo by Russ McSpadden" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 300w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 1080w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 150w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 768w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 1536w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 2048w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 38w, rewilding.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Whats… 250w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" wpfc-lazyload-disable="true" /></a><p>Summary To make way for double 30-foot, steel border walls in Lochiel, Arizona, federal contractors have clearcut a grove of three 200-year-old Fremont cottonwood trees that reached their boughs across the U.S.-Mexico border in a sign of connectivity, friendship, and anchoring the headwaters of the Santa Cruz River. On the heels of this destruction, grassroots […]</p>
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