Originally posted on May 21, 2026 at Marfa Public Radio
Seven former superintendents of Big Bend National Park are expressing “grave concerns” with the Trump administration’s plan for new border barriers, roads and surveillance technology in the park, describing the plan as “unnecessary and highly destructive.”
The group of superintendents – whose collective tenure at the park dates back to the 1980s – sent a letter Thursday to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, urging him not to waive federal environmental laws for the project, as the administration has done in other parts of the Big Bend region.
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