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🌱 How border wall work near Ajo damaged a 7,000-year-old geoglyph

Ajo, Arizona Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • How border wall work near Ajo damaged a 7,000-year-old geoglyph

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Breezy in the morning; sunny, with a high of 98 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Sunday: Hot; breezy in the morning, temps: high: 100, low: 77.
  • Monday: Sunny and toasty conditions, with a high of 100 and low of 73 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Border Wall Destroys 7,000-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph (outsideonline.com) — A 7,000-year-old geoglyph in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge near Ajo was badly damaged this spring during border wall construction, with about a third of the ancient fish carving destroyed. Archaeologists now say the site is the oldest known geoglyph in the Americas, and conservation advocates warn that ongoing wall projects could further threaten sacred Indigenous sites and public lands around Ajo and the wider Sonoran Desert.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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