Originally posted June 18, 2026
The ongoing controversy involving the building of a border wall in Big Bend looks to be forging ahead, despite multiple organizations and conservation advocates’ pleas, as well as comments from Customs and Border Protection’s Commissioner Rodney Scott to the contrary.
On May 21, six former superintendents from Big Bend National Park with numerous years of experience in the National Park Service penned a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, urging him to reject the waiver of federal laws allowing physical barriers and roads, as well as other disruptive infrastructure, inside the areas of the parks and the river corridor. These same superintendents have penned a second letter, dated this past Monday, June 15, 2026.
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