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Borderlands RAVE BlogThis map is a bird's eye view of some of the places, people and wildlife our 13 photographers encountered over a month in the borderlands. Click links on the bottom of the page to explore this biologically rich area and visually stunning landscape, as well as learn about some of the impacts immigration and border policy are having on it.
Bitácora electrónica de RAVE
Our team of photographers, biologists, and a film crew have started a three week journey in order to observe, document and disseminate a story that began right here in San Diego and has been playing out on the borderlands landscape for more than a decade.
Along the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the border takes on a distinctly South Texas attitude.
Today one half of our team explored the Barry Goldwater Range in Southwestern Arizona.
January 28, 2009: Pinacate and Gran Desierto, Mexico
After a Mexican lunch in Yuma, Arizona, we said good-bye to our friends who would be taking photographs in the US, and headed towards Mexico.
January 31, 2009: Organ Pipe Cactus NM, Arizona
This park has been at the mercy of the reverberations that followed enhanced border enforcement and infrastructure in San Diego in the mid 1990s.
February 1, 2009: Los Fresnos, Mexico
Los Fresnos is the site of a successful reintroduction of beaver into Mexico.
February 2, 2009: San Pedro River, Arizona
Over the past year, this last free flowing river in Arizona, one of the last in the southwest and a critical haven for wildlife, has been the site of massive construction.
February 4, 2009: Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas - Part 2
At first glance, the border wall along the Lower Rio Grande Valley wildlife corridor of Texas may not appear to be sacrificing much acreage to valuable wildlife habitat. But with only 5% of native landscape remaining, any loss is exponential.
February 6, 2009: Los Ojos, Mexico
Los Ojos is a conservation property owned by Joe and Valer Austin, located in the northwestern corner of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It is situated only a few miles south of the international border, near the line that separates the US states of Arizona and New Mexico.
February 9, 2009: Janos, Mexico
Janos, Mexico harbors a remnant of one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America, grasslands.
February 14, 2009: Adams Ranch, South Central Texas
We have come to the Adams Ranch on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Central Texas to get a feel for international cooperation done right.
February 17, 2009: Roma, Texas
The border towns of Texas are a vibrant society in which it is impossible to tell where the American culture ends and the Mexican begins.
February 18, 2009: Gulf of Mexico
After almost 2000 miles of travel over three and a half weeks with 13 photographers, we arrive at the mouth of the Rio Grande.
Epilogue
While there is much yet to do, we can’t move on without thanking all of the people that have helped make this expedition possible and sharing a few behind the scenes moments.
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