By Elizabeth Whitman | Phoenix New Times
In May, when Matthew Bishop visited Sonoran Desert National Monument to see the damage for himself, he was shocked.
Bullet holes punctured iconic saguaro cacti. Native American petroglyphs had been shot up and scarred.
“I just saw a small percentage of it,” Bishop, a lawyer for the Montana-based Western Environmental Law Center, told Phoenix New Times. “To be honest, I didn’t think it was that big a deal until I saw it in person.”