Originally posted May 26, 2027
On a quiet spring morning, Joe Pineda drives across his land near the Rio Grande, pointing out where he runs cattle and grows alfalfa and the family cemetery that dates back to the late 1800s.
As he reaches the edge of the river, the 52-year-old slows his hulking pickup truck to a crawl. He then talks about his family’s deep history in the Big Bend area of West Texas and the days he spent here as a child and the times he brought his own children.
“It’s things like that that I’m going to miss,” said Pineda as a gentle wind ran through the overgrown reeds and mesquite trees crowding the river. “It’s the time that you can enjoy with your kids, and enjoy (the) heritage of your land, where your great-grandparents and everybody else before you lived – and it’s going to be taken.”
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