Originally posted June 15, 2026
Former Big Bend National Park officials, whose first letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin asking that he not waive environmental regulations to allow construction of a border wall in the park was ignored, have written a second asking that he not allow “wholesale and unaccountable destruction” of the park.
It was a week ago that Mullin waived the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, National Park Service Organic Act, the Clean Water Act, the Historic Preservation Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Paleontological Resources Protection Act, the Federal Caves Protection Act, and a slew of other national, state and local environmental laws “to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international land border in the state of Texas.”
On May 21 the former Big Bend officials had written Mullin to say erecting a southern border wall through Big Bend would be “the most egregious assault” on the National Park System since a majestic Yosemite National Park valley was flooded by a dam’s construction more than a century ago.
Read the full story at National Parks Traveler.
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