New construction of the border wall at the southern terminus of the Continental Divide Trail, a 3,100-mile long-distance trail that stretches from Canada to Mexico.
(Courtesy of the CDT Coalition)Before the Trump administration decided the country urgently needed to erect a hulking steel wall in southern New Mexico’s Bootheel, only a three-strand barbed wire fence separated the United States from Mexico in this arid stretch of the Chihuahuan Des…