Barriers constructed along the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration caused "significant damage and destruction" to the environment and cultural sites, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Thursday.

The watchdog's 72-page document says former President Donald Trump's efforts to deliver on a campaign promise — to construct more than 450 miles of border barrier panels along the southwest border to deter illegal crossings and activity — hampered the migration of endangered species, eroded federal lands, disrupted water flow and "irreparably" damaged sacred tribal sites.

As they prepared to construct the wall in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, Trump administration officials waived laws to protect cultural and natural resources and installed more than half of the wall's mileage on federal lands.

Barrier panels extended, for example, through Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge and Coronado National Forest and parts of a national wildlife refuge in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.