Official Border Wall plans have been released for the Big Bend. If fulfilled, It will devastate our wildlife and Texas public lands. People called us alarmists when we released this video nearly ten years ago. Surely a wall would never be built through Big Bend. Right? It didn’t make sense then, and doesn’t make sense now. But here we are, with immigration at a 50 year low and DHS planning to build a steel wall through Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Black Gap, and along our only Wild & Scenic River. It will block access to the Rio Grande, prohibit wildlife movement, destroy our precious public lands, and essentially give the river to Mexico. Of all the ways the federal government can waste money, destroy our landscapes, and infuriate Texas public land lovers and the radical political middle, this really takes the cake. @governorabbot, @sentedcruz, @johncornyn we’re calling on you to stand up for Texans and our beloved Big Bend! Don’t let the feds steal our Texas land, block us from our river, and destroy our state’s greatest hope for landscape scale conservation. Follow @nobigbendwall, sign the petition on their link, and call your reps. For the sake of all who love Texas’ wild spaces, dark skies, and the Big Bend, we need to take action. If you’re interested in a more thorough look at how the wall will impact wildlife, public lands, landowner rights, and river access, watch “The River and The Wall”, a feature-length documentary we released in 2019. Thanks for reading. Thanks for watching. Please take action.

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