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Construction Continues on Trump's Devastating Border Wall

KDNK | By Raleigh Burleigh

Published March 3, 2020 at 5:00 PM MST

On February 26 and 27, Wilderness Workshop and ACES hosted Wildlands Network biologists Myles Traphagen and Mirna Manteca to discuss the environmental impacts of President Trump's border wall. Here we present Myles' presentation at Carbondale Middle School. For Mirna's presentation, click here.

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Raleigh Burleigh

Raleigh Burleigh was raised in the historic floodplanes of Satank. The Carbondale Rotary Club sponsored him as a youth ambassador to Chile the year before his graduation from Roaring Fork High School. He studied International Affairs and Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder then applied those studies traveling throughout South America the following year. Returning to Carbondale thereafter, Raleigh acquired an internship with KDNK News which led to the opportunity to serve as News Director from 2017 to 2019. After another trip to South America in early 2019, Raleigh Burleigh drew deeper into the confluence as Program Director at KDNK. Raleigh now serves on KDNK's board of directors and as editor of Carbondale's weekly newspaper, The Sopris Sun.

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