The PRT Weekly News Bulletin for Aug. 27-Sept. 3, 2025

Border wall construction site in the San Rafael Valley on Monday, Aug. 25. Photo by John Kurc, via Sky Island Alliance

In this week’s news bulletin:

  • Sky Island Alliance to host free Aug. 28 webinar on the border wall construction project’s status, effect on wildlife
  • The 110th Annual Sonoita Labor Day Rodeo is this weekend at the Fairgrounds — here are all the details
  • Agenda set for Patagonia Town Council’s Aug. 27 meeting
  • The fishhook barrel cactus’s standing army: video and story by Vince Pinto
  • From the PRT archives: Ann Katzenbach on Colonel Johnson’s legacy, from our Sept. 2014 issue

Plus: School news, job listings, and information on upcoming concerts, fundraisers, workshops, farmers markets, public meetings, church services and much more

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