Associated Press
A federal judge yesterday temporarily delayed construction of a 1.5-mile section of a border fence in a wildlife conservation area on the Arizona-Mexico line.
The Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club had requested a 10-day delay in a motion accusing the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies of failing to conduct a thorough study of the fence's effect on the environment.
U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said she granted the delay in part because the federal government did not explain why it hurried through an environmental assessment and began building the fence in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area.
Posted by tyne at October 11, 2007