Wildlife Managers Driven Batty Over Illegal Alien Campsites

Cleanup Requires "Employees Outfitted With Haz-Mat Suits"

"Three years ago, the endangered lesser long-nosed bat had been ousted from a cave here [in Arizona], one of just four known maternity roosts in the United States, by illegal aliens who used the cave as a cool rest stop on their route north. Now, the aliens are out of the cave, the bat is back -- and all it took was a fence," the Washington Times reports. "Even as the U.S. Border Patrol and now the National Guard fight to keep people from crossing illegally into the United States, a secondary battle is being waged to keep some of the nation's most pristine lands and endangered species from becoming collateral damage. 'All the actions we try and do, a lot of it gets minimized or marginalized by the traffic we have to deal with,' said Curt McCasland, assistant manager and biologist at Cabeza Prieta, a national wildlife refuge the size of Rhode Island that contains 56 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border."

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