BISBEE — Federal officials plan to build more than 200 miles of fencing in Arizona along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a significant portion in the region.

The fencing is intended to assist U.S. Border Patrol agents in reducing illegal cross-border activities.

The Herald/Review obtained the following list of proposed fence construction sites in or near Cochise County from U.S. Customs and Border Protection:

• More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca

• About 6 1/2 miles south of Sierra Vista near the Coronado National Memorial

• About 7 miles starting 10 miles west of Naco going east

• About 6 1/2 miles just east of Naco running east

• A 1-mile section in an area west of Douglas

• More than 20 miles from about seven miles east of Douglas to about 1 1/2 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico state line.

There will be a mixture of vehicle barriers and pedestrian fencing, based on operational needs, said Lloyd Easterling, assistant chief of U.S. Border Patrol for Customs and Border Protection’s office of public affairs. “Pedestrian fencing is most likely to be found in urban or more populated areas where we are at a time and terrain disadvantage,” he said. “Vehicle fencing will be Normandy, post on rail, personnel vehicle type or pedestrian/vehicle style, as terrain and operational needs require,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Fencing will be able to withstand vandalism and will be aesthetically pleasing to the extent possible. It will be engineered to not impede water flow, will be designed to survive extreme climate changes, and will reduce or minimize impediments to small animal movements.

Defenders of Wildlife, a nonprofit group, says the border wall will do more than divide two nations. The group is encouraging the government to take actions to protect wildlife that migrate along borderlands.

“In Arizona alone, the Border Patrol estimates that 39 species protected or proposed to be protected under the Endangered Species Act are already being affected by its operations,” Defenders of Wildlife says in a statement. “The wall will slice up already fragmented habitat, and have dramatic effects on countless migratory species, making it harder and harder to stop their decline.”

Projects in Arizona

A list of border fence construction projects in Arizona:

• Starting about 1 mile south of Boundary Monument 206 and runs south along the Colorado River for about 13.3 miles.

• Starting about a tenth of a mile north of County 18th Street runs south along the border for about 3.8 miles.

• Starting at the eastern edge of the Barry M. Goldwater Range and runs east along the border to about 1.3 miles west of Boundary Monument 174.

• Starting about half of a mile west of Boundary Monument 168 and runs east along the border for about 5.3 miles.

• Starting about 1 mile east of Boundary Monument 160 and runs east for about 1.6 miles.

• Starting about 1.3 miles east of Boundary Monument 159 and runs east along the border to about three-tenths of a mile east of Boundary Monument 140.

• Starting about 2.2 miles west of Boundary Monument 138 and runs east along the border for about 2.5 miles.

• Starting about two-tenths of a mile east of Boundary Monument 136 and runs east along the border to about two-tenths of a mile west of Boundary Monument 102.

• Starting about 3 miles west of Boundary Monument 99 and runs east along the border about 6.5 miles.

• Starting about at Boundary Monument 97 and runs east along the border about 6.9 miles.

• Starting about at Boundary Monument 91 and runs east along the border to about seven-tenths of a mile east of Boundary Monument 89.

• Starting about 1.7 miles west of Boundary Monument 86 and runs east along the border to about seven-tenths of a mile west of Boundary Monument 86.

• Starting about two-tenths of a mile west of Boundary Monument 83 and runs east along the border to about two-tenths of a mile east of Boundary Monument 73.