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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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ALERT: 30-ft steel border wall bollards are arriving in Big Bend. Staging areas are being cleared, unpermitted groundwater wells are being drilled, survey crews are swarming. All to spend billions to wall off the Rio Grande in a place virtually nobody crosses the border.
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ALERT: 30-ft steel border wall bollards are arriving in Big Bend. Staging areas are being cleared, unpermitted groundwater wells are being drilled, survey crews are swarming. All to spend billions to wall off the Rio Grande in a place virtually nobody crosses the border.

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196,197 views • 5 days ago

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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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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4,515,994 views • 3 years ago

DHS is preparing to blast canyons & bulldoze roads through thousands of years of human history along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park—where virtually nobody is crossing. In Arizona, just a month ago, they destroyed a 1,000-year-old sacred site and faced no consequences.
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DHS is preparing to blast canyons & bulldoze roads through thousands of years of human history along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park—where virtually nobody is crossing. In Arizona, just a month ago, they destroyed a 1,000-year-old sacred site and faced no consequences.

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89,389 views • 22 days ago

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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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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2,922,854 views • 2 years ago

BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X. We shouldn't be sacrificing our cherished public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.
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BREAKING: We're suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service over their plan to give away 715 acres of a public wildlife refuge to billionaire corporation Space X. We shouldn't be sacrificing our cherished public lands to subsidize a company owned by the richest man in the world.

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129,246 views • 1 month ago

As the bulldozers roll into Big Bend to build miles of needless border walls, roads and vehicle barriers, I want to remind you just how horrific it was to spend years watching walls go up across protected public lands in Arizona. We watched DHS bulldoze ancient saguaro cacti that were older than the border itself. They dynamited Indigenous gravesites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument—I was there watching the shockwaves rattle cactus arms as O'odham tribal members wept. We watched them pump up millions of gallons of precious desert groundwater, permanently altering fragile desert springs. We can't allow this to happen to Big Bend, where DHS's own statistics say virtually nobody crosses the border. We can't let this happen to Texas' crown-jewel national park, its Congressionally protected wild and scenic river. We'll never stop fighting to save the last best place left in the borderlands.
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As the bulldozers roll into Big Bend to build miles of needless border walls, roads and vehicle barriers, I want to remind you just how horrific it was to spend years watching walls go up across protected public lands in Arizona. We watched DHS bulldoze ancient saguaro cacti that were older than the border itself. They dynamited Indigenous gravesites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument—I was there watching the shockwaves rattle cactus arms as O'odham tribal members wept. We watched them pump up millions of gallons of precious desert groundwater, permanently altering fragile desert springs. We can't allow this to happen to Big Bend, where DHS's own statistics say virtually nobody crosses the border. We can't let this happen to Texas' crown-jewel national park, its Congressionally protected wild and scenic river. We'll never stop fighting to save the last best place left in the borderlands.

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43,767 views • 12 days ago

30-foot border wall panels are piling up across the Big Bend region. Communities, outfitters and ranchers will be walled off from the Rio Grande. Access to agricultural pumps will be cut off while new industrial wells suck already-stressed aquifers dry. And for what? Border Patrol data show that almost nobody crosses the border here. The only winners here are the politically connected contractors who will pocket billions while carving apart the wildest place left in Texas. This corrupt plan is rotten to the core. And yet Texas' senators remain silent, standing by and watching while the natural heritage and rural economies of their state are sacrificed for a wall that provides no discernable border security benefit.
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30-foot border wall panels are piling up across the Big Bend region. Communities, outfitters and ranchers will be walled off from the Rio Grande. Access to agricultural pumps will be cut off while new industrial wells suck already-stressed aquifers dry. And for what? Border Patrol data show that almost nobody crosses the border here. The only winners here are the politically connected contractors who will pocket billions while carving apart the wildest place left in Texas. This corrupt plan is rotten to the core. And yet Texas' senators remain silent, standing by and watching while the natural heritage and rural economies of their state are sacrificed for a wall that provides no discernable border security benefit.

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13,663 views • 4 days ago

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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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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117,343 views • 2 months ago

Breaking: The town of Presidio just sued DHS over plans to build a border wall through the Rio Grande floodplain with no engineering review & no public input. The feds are threatening landowners with eminent domain. Presidio is fighting back.
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Breaking: The town of Presidio just sued DHS over plans to build a border wall through the Rio Grande floodplain with no engineering review & no public input. The feds are threatening landowners with eminent domain. Presidio is fighting back.

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51,119 views • 1 month ago

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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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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1,324,840 views • 3 years ago

This week, DHS waived every one of our nation's most important environmental laws to bulldoze new border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in U.S. history these laws have been waived in a national park. With these laws gutted and a $1.7 billion construction contract already issued, very little stands in the way of DHS contractors plowing into the park, permanently destroying countless archeological sites, blocking off river access and turning this peaceful national park into an industrial construction zone. We will continue to fight this project every step of the way... more on that soon. Audio from NPR's fantastic Studio 1A program, which aired across the country last week.
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This week, DHS waived every one of our nation's most important environmental laws to bulldoze new border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in U.S. history these laws have been waived in a national park. With these laws gutted and a $1.7 billion construction contract already issued, very little stands in the way of DHS contractors plowing into the park, permanently destroying countless archeological sites, blocking off river access and turning this peaceful national park into an industrial construction zone. We will continue to fight this project every step of the way... more on that soon. Audio from NPR's fantastic Studio 1A program, which aired across the country last week.

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57,214 views • 1 month ago

Border walls don’t belong in wildlife refuges. Pronghorn like these have migrated freely across the invisible line that’s now called the U.S.-Mexico border for millennia. Now, their habitat is severed in two. This video from the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in AZ.
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Border walls don’t belong in wildlife refuges. Pronghorn like these have migrated freely across the invisible line that’s now called the U.S.-Mexico border for millennia. Now, their habitat is severed in two. This video from the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in AZ.

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788,328 views • 2 years ago

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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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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857,791 views • 2 years ago

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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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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121,135 views • 4 months ago

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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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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121,159 views • 5 months ago

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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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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69,315 views • 3 months ago

Breaking: Tohono O’odham Nation sues DHS over border wall plans that would take sovereign tribal land, use the Nation’s water & destroy sacred sites. O’odham Legislative Council approved suit unanimously while facing wall construction that may start in the next few weeks.
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Breaking: Tohono O’odham Nation sues DHS over border wall plans that would take sovereign tribal land, use the Nation’s water & destroy sacred sites. O’odham Legislative Council approved suit unanimously while facing wall construction that may start in the next few weeks.

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24,545 views • 1 month ago

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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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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48,644 views • 2 months ago

The people who want to wall off Big Bend have never set foot here. Instead of listening to local sheriffs, border security experts, rural Texas businesses, and pretty much every single person who calls this region home, DHS is pushing to butcher Big Bend National Park with completely unnecessary walls and roads.
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The people who want to wall off Big Bend have never set foot here. Instead of listening to local sheriffs, border security experts, rural Texas businesses, and pretty much every single person who calls this region home, DHS is pushing to butcher Big Bend National Park with completely unnecessary walls and roads.

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29,248 views • 1 month ago

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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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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51,825 views • 3 months ago