Francisco Zamora, senior director of programs for the Sonoran Institute, photographs wildlife on the institute's Laguna Grande Restoration Area south of Mexicali, Mexico. Feb. 1, 2023.
Antonia Torres González holds a photo of her mother inside Museo Comunitario Cucapah, the museum about northern Mexico's indigenous tribes that she runs south of Mexicali, in Mexico's Baja California state. Feb. 2, 2023.
Green and fallow fields south of Mexicali, in Mexico's Baja California state, on Feb. 2, 2023. Some of these brown tracts were not irrigated to preserve water in the area.
A branch of the Colorado River flows through the Sonoran Institute's Laguna Grande Restoration Area, south of Mexicali in Mexico's Baja California state. The surrounding farmland and desert was once lush wetlands before the United States constructed dams north of the border. Feb. 1, 2023.
A border wall separating Calexico, California, and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Feb. 3, 2023.
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