View from Monument No. 81, looking east along the border road where Mexico is on the right. At the fence, a road zigzags towards the base of a mountain.
Because of careful ranch management, grasses survive in the Animas Valley on the Unites States side of the line (to the right). Overgrazing on the Mexican side encourages creosote (greasewood) bushes to replace the grasses. This view looking west…
Today, no federal, state, or local governments have any concerted policy regarding the border fences. The United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission constructed fences in a cattle control program that began in 1935 and…
View of a fence in an Arroyo between Monuments 95 and 96. A small dirt path runs along in front the fence and in the background, vegetation populates the landscape.
View from Monument No. 120, looking east into "Smuggler's Gulch," near Nogales, Arizona and Sonora. Mexico is on the right. Rural routes are often used to smuggle consumer goods into Mexico to avoid the high import taxes and bribes. Driving up to the…