The Continental Divide Trail is being militarized for the border wall

The Continental Divide Trail is being militarized for the border wall

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…