Militarizing the Sky: A Q&A with Laiken Jordahl

The Center for Biological Diversity’s conservation advocate talks about a military attempt to increase supersonic flights and trainings in the borderlands and how the public still has time to comment.

Outside the Barry M Goldwater Bombing Range in the west Arizona borderlands. (Photo by Caitlin O'Hara for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

When thinking of the U.S. borderlands, you might first imagine walls, surveillance technology, and armed agents tasked with stopping migrants. But the region also has a long history as a testing and training grou…