Protesters today climbed into an ancient cottonwood tree in Arizona’s San Rafael Valley to stop the Trump administration from cutting it down for construction of two parallel 30-foot-tall border walls.The action comes after Department of Homeland Security contractors cut down three neighboring Fremo...

Locals say the trees have served as a community gathering place for generations and are ecologically rare.

The tree is the last remaining of four cottonwoods that have stood along the U.S.-Mexico border in Lochiel, Arizona, for between an estimated 100 to 200 years. Border Patrol says…