"I stand with the Keep Big Bend Wild coalition"
I stand with the Keep Big Bend Wild coalition in their mission to secure official Wilderness designation for Big Bend National Park's untouched backcountry. This fight isn't new—the National Park Service first championed it in 1974, during my tenure as Director, and reaffirmed the call in 1978. Now, it's time for Congress to act. By enshrining permanent, statutory protection, we can ensure Big Bend’s breathtaking landscapes remain shielded from policy shifts or development threats. It's heartening to see the backing of former NPS Directors, united in our commitment to safeguarding America's wilderness legacy so future generations can continue to embrace its solitude, beauty, and ecological richness."
~ Ronald H. Walker, NPS Director 1973-1975
The Travel | U.S. Customs And Border Protection Responds Over Plan To Blast Big Bend National Park Mountain
Bob Krumenaker, chair of Keep Big Bend Wild and former Superintendent of Big Bend National Park, told TheTravel in an emailed statement that the U.S. government intends to build[…]
Texas Standard | Advocates fear Big Bend border wall will pollute Earth’s largest Dark Sky Reserve
Among the many reasons people love far West Texas is the dark skies over the Big Bend region. It’s a wide-open pool of stars, complete with the Milky Way.
Your Basin | Talarico unveils border security plan backed by Republican sheriffs, local leaders
It’s not often Republican sheriffs and a Democratic lawmaker stand behind the same podium to talk about border security, but that’s what happened Monday afternoon in Sanderson, Texas.
Marfa Public Radio | James Talarico slams ‘corrupt’ Big Bend border wall on campaign trail
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, slammed the Trump administration’s plan to build a 175-mile stretch of border wall in the Big Bend region at a campaign event[…]
The Border Chronicle | Trump’s Border Wall Is Coming for Some of the Oldest Murals in North America
On June 3, the Department of Homeland Security awarded its largest upfront border wall contract to date to Fisher Sand & Gravel, a North Dakota company with a checkered[…]
The American West | Ep. 34: Big Bend and the Deserts of the West
In the eyes of the world, the West’s several deserts have become defining landscapes for the modern region. But one of them, the Chihuahuan Desert, has produced the only[…]
The Architect’s Newspaper | Crossing the Line
In recent years, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) archaeologists have uncovered a pit house near the Rio Grande in Far West Texas inside Big Bend Ranch State Park[…]
Big Bend Sentinel | ‘We already lost it once’: Eminent domain returns to the Big Bend
When Everett Ewing Townsend, a 23-year-old customs inspector stationed on the border in the Big Bend, saw the South Rim of the Chisos Mountains for the first time, he[…]
Deseret News | Ex-superintendents urge Homeland Security not to build through Big Bend National Park
Since February, there’s been uncertainty about whether the Department of Homeland Security would build a wall through stretches of the Big Bend region of West Texas.
National Parks Traveler | Former Big Bend National Park Officials Urge Homeland Security Secretary Not To Allow “Wholesale And Unaccountable Destruction” Of The Park
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[…]
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