U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Kate Conners, right, the lead environmentalist with the South Pacific Border Task Force, requird safety fencing around protected plant species in the state of Arizona during the BMGR-1 project’s environmental survey near Yuma, Arizona, Aug. 26. USACE is replacing permanent border barriers along the southern border of the U.S. at the direction of the U.S. Army by the Secretary of War, in response to the presidential national emergency declaration dated Jan. 20, 2025, authorizing the use of Section 2803 of Title 10, U.S. Code. (Photo by Robert DeDeaux USACE PAO)