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Public Lands Forever. Big Bend/NPS alumni, fighting for all things wild with my friends at Center for Biological Diversity.

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Texas Gov Abbott has installed circular saws between the Rio Grande border buoys to maim or kill anyone who attempts to climb over. Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier. He wants more migrants to die.

Texas Gov Abbott has installed circular saws between the Rio Grande border buoys to maim or kill anyone who attempts to climb over. Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier. He wants more migrants to die.

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Truly, literally, every single business in rural Terlingua, TX is speaking out against the Big Bend border wall in a universally nonpartisan manner with everything they’ve got. One coffee shop built a massive replica wall with a canoe on top saying “STOP THE STEEL.”

Truly, literally, every single business in rural Terlingua, TX is speaking out against the Big Bend border wall in a universally nonpartisan manner with everything they’ve got. One coffee shop built a massive replica wall with a canoe on top saying “STOP THE STEEL.”

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More border wall survey stakes are showing up across the Big Bend region, including in Big Bend Ranch State Park. These rural Texas communities could lose everything: rural economies decimated, gravesites uprooted, access to irrigation cut off. And Gov. Abbott is dead silent.

More border wall survey stakes are showing up across the Big Bend region, including in Big Bend Ranch State Park. These rural Texas communities could lose everything: rural economies decimated, gravesites uprooted, access to irrigation cut off. And Gov. Abbott is dead silent.

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Huge jaguar news. This stunning new cat has been detected north of the border! This magnificent creature is the 8th cat spotted in the US since the 90’s. We must protect the cross-border wildlife corridors jaguars & so many other species need to survive.

Huge jaguar news. This stunning new cat has been detected north of the border! This magnificent creature is the 8th cat spotted in the US since the 90’s. We must protect the cross-border wildlife corridors jaguars & so many other species need to survive.

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Big news: Mike Lee's disgraceful land grab provision has been removed from the Senate budget bill. But Lee has vowed to continue efforts to liquidate our public lands so billionaires can build private playgrounds & lock the rest of us out. We'll fight him every step of the way.

Big news: Mike Lee's disgraceful land grab provision has been removed from the Senate budget bill. But Lee has vowed to continue efforts to liquidate our public lands so billionaires can build private playgrounds & lock the rest of us out. We'll fight him every step of the way.

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ALERT: Hundreds gather outside the Western Governors Association meeting to protest the Senate’s disgraceful plan to sell and dispose of Western public lands. “NOT FOR SALE”

ALERT: Hundreds gather outside the Western Governors Association meeting to protest the Senate’s disgraceful plan to sell and dispose of Western public lands. “NOT FOR SALE”

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BREAKING: new video captures rare jaguar roaming the sky islands of southern Arizona. We checked this camera trap in an undisclosed location yesterday. Just weeks earlier, this cat was moving through the same slopes. We must protect wildlife connectivity in the borderlands so jaguars can continue their recovery in the American Southwest.

BREAKING: new video captures rare jaguar roaming the sky islands of southern Arizona. We checked this camera trap in an undisclosed location yesterday. Just weeks earlier, this cat was moving through the same slopes. We must protect wildlife connectivity in the borderlands so jaguars can continue their recovery in the American Southwest.

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Texas is installing a “floating wall” across the Rio Grande with netting intended to snag & drown border-crossers. River currents will trap debris in the nets & alter river flows. People & wildlife will drown. This is Gov Abbott’s deadly abomination…

Texas is installing a “floating wall” across the Rio Grande with netting intended to snag & drown border-crossers. River currents will trap debris in the nets & alter river flows. People & wildlife will drown. This is Gov Abbott’s deadly abomination…

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DHS bulldozed thousands of saguaros & other native cacti to build the border wall. In an effort to deflect from severe public outcry, they transplanted a few and wrote a congratulatory press release calling themselves conservationists. The fate of the transplanted saguaros:

DHS bulldozed thousands of saguaros & other native cacti to build the border wall. In an effort to deflect from severe public outcry, they transplanted a few and wrote a congratulatory press release calling themselves conservationists. The fate of the transplanted saguaros:

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I spent 9 years documenting border wall construction across Arizona. I watched DHS pump millions of gallons of groundwater, dynamite sacred sites & slice apart wildlife corridors. We can't let them bring this kind of devastation to Big Bend.

I spent 9 years documenting border wall construction across Arizona. I watched DHS pump millions of gallons of groundwater, dynamite sacred sites & slice apart wildlife corridors. We can't let them bring this kind of devastation to Big Bend.

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Republican border sheriffs are repeatedly telling anyone who will listen: Big Bend already has a God-made wall. If someone can cross over hundreds of miles of this terrain, they won’t be stymied by a small piece of steel. Washington bureaucrats at DHS aren’t listening.

Republican border sheriffs are repeatedly telling anyone who will listen: Big Bend already has a God-made wall. If someone can cross over hundreds of miles of this terrain, they won’t be stymied by a small piece of steel. Washington bureaucrats at DHS aren’t listening.

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Texas has installed the first 1000 feet of its absurd “floating wall.” This looks easy to scale at such low water levels. But it’s underwater netting will ensnare fish, turtles & aquatic birds & intends to trap and drown migrants as a deadly “deterrent.”

Texas has installed the first 1000 feet of its absurd “floating wall.” This looks easy to scale at such low water levels. But it’s underwater netting will ensnare fish, turtles & aquatic birds & intends to trap and drown migrants as a deadly “deterrent.”

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The Senate will likely vote to confirm Steve Pearce tomorrow. As BLM director, he will oversee 245 million acres of America’s mountains, canyons, grasslands & rivers. Pearce has spent his career trying to sell off & destroy our public lands. Shameful.

The Senate will likely vote to confirm Steve Pearce tomorrow. As BLM director, he will oversee 245 million acres of America’s mountains, canyons, grasslands & rivers. Pearce has spent his career trying to sell off & destroy our public lands. Shameful.

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Since I worked there in 2015, Big Bend has always been my last source of hope in the borderlands. A place too rugged, too remote—and with virtually zero crossings, too pointless to tame with border walls. Now the corrupt politicians and billionaire contractors are coming to try and destroy the last best place left in the borderlands. But they don't understand what this place means to us. We will never stop fighting for Big Bend.

Since I worked there in 2015, Big Bend has always been my last source of hope in the borderlands. A place too rugged, too remote—and with virtually zero crossings, too pointless to tame with border walls. Now the corrupt politicians and billionaire contractors are coming to try and destroy the last best place left in the borderlands. But they don't understand what this place means to us. We will never stop fighting for Big Bend.

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You know this is an incredible bipartisan movement when even the Trump-endorsed U.S. House candidate for this rural Texas district Brandon Herrera is speaking at the rally against the Big Bend border wall. Where is Greg Abbott? Where are the rest of the don't tread on me Republicans?

You know this is an incredible bipartisan movement when even the Trump-endorsed U.S. House candidate for this rural Texas district Brandon Herrera is speaking at the rally against the Big Bend border wall. Where is Greg Abbott? Where are the rest of the don't tread on me Republicans?

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Gov. Abbott is destroying the Rio Grande for a fearmongering photo-op. Miles of deadly razor-wire have been deployed to ensnare & impale border crossers. Bobcats, bear, mule deer & other wildlife will also be cut off from their main source of water.

Gov. Abbott is destroying the Rio Grande for a fearmongering photo-op. Miles of deadly razor-wire have been deployed to ensnare & impale border crossers. Bobcats, bear, mule deer & other wildlife will also be cut off from their main source of water.

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A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service. Here's the playbook: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency & let parks fall into disrepair. Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite industry to pillage them.

A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service. Here's the playbook: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency & let parks fall into disrepair. Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite industry to pillage them.

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Every single river outfitter in the Big Bend region joined a flotilla today at Santa Elena Canyon to deliver one message to DHS and Governor Abbott: You can pry this river from their cold, dead hands.

Every single river outfitter in the Big Bend region joined a flotilla today at Santa Elena Canyon to deliver one message to DHS and Governor Abbott: You can pry this river from their cold, dead hands.

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BREAKING: We’re suing DHS for invoking sweeping waiver authority gutting dozens of federal laws to fast-track border wall construction in the Big Bend region. This is an unconstitutional power grab—Congress never authorized anything close to this scale of action or destruction.

BREAKING: We’re suing DHS for invoking sweeping waiver authority gutting dozens of federal laws to fast-track border wall construction in the Big Bend region. This is an unconstitutional power grab—Congress never authorized anything close to this scale of action or destruction.

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We're suing the Department of Homeland Security for waiving all environmental and public transparency laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend—a place where virtually nobody crosses the border. Here's our co-plaintiff Billy Miller, discussing what's at stake:

We're suing the Department of Homeland Security for waiving all environmental and public transparency laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend—a place where virtually nobody crosses the border. Here's our co-plaintiff Billy Miller, discussing what's at stake:

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The current DHS map shows a border wall ripping through this exact stretch of river in Big Bend Ranch State Park. They’ve awarded a $1.2 billion dollar construction contract. They’ve waived every single environmental law to rush the project. We could lose this river forever.

The current DHS map shows a border wall ripping through this exact stretch of river in Big Bend Ranch State Park. They’ve awarded a $1.2 billion dollar construction contract. They’ve waived every single environmental law to rush the project. We could lose this river forever.

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Deep out in the Arizona borderlands, in a place where jaguars, ocelots and mountain lions cross the border far more frequently than migrants, DHS is building not one but two border walls through pristine habitat. What does it say about the efficacy of border walls if the places that have one wall already need another?

Deep out in the Arizona borderlands, in a place where jaguars, ocelots and mountain lions cross the border far more frequently than migrants, DHS is building not one but two border walls through pristine habitat. What does it say about the efficacy of border walls if the places that have one wall already need another?

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ALERT: Construction survey stakes just placed in the ground at popular river access point in Big Bend Ranch State Park. Local CBP officials say wall plans here are off, but the feds awarded a $1.2B contract & waived all laws to rush construction. Video from local outfitter:

ALERT: Construction survey stakes just placed in the ground at popular river access point in Big Bend Ranch State Park. Local CBP officials say wall plans here are off, but the feds awarded a $1.2B contract & waived all laws to rush construction. Video from local outfitter:

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Border walls are closing in on Big Bend National Park — threatening to block access to the Rio Grande, destroy historic hot springs, and permanently alter the most sacred place in Texas. Sam Karas reports from the border:

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Border walls are closing in on Big Bend National Park — threatening to block access to the Rio Grande, destroy historic hot springs, and permanently alter the most sacred place in Texas. Sam Karas reports from the border:

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REPORTING LIVE from the crisis at Arizona’s southern border

REPORTING LIVE from the crisis at Arizona’s southern border

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Don’t mess with Texas, right? Well, Trump is picking a fight with Big Bend, the most sacred place in the whole damn state. They want to rob this natural heritage from us. But a massive, bipartisan resistance is growing like nothing I’ve ever seen. We can’t let off the pressure.

Don’t mess with Texas, right? Well, Trump is picking a fight with Big Bend, the most sacred place in the whole damn state. They want to rob this natural heritage from us. But a massive, bipartisan resistance is growing like nothing I’ve ever seen. We can’t let off the pressure.

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