Big Bend National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Chianti Mountains State Natural Area, Black Gap Wildlife Management Area, and the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River need your help today to avert a tragic proposal to bulldoze and blast a border wall through these natural, diverse, iconic, scenic, and rugged landscapes in the Big Bend Region (BBR).

The Trump administration has proposed a border wall across the BBR.  It will be bulldozed and blasted unless Texans rise-up and say NO!!!  We must send a flood of emails and phone calls to our elected officials and tell them that a border wall isn’t acceptable in the Big Bend Region.

Contact the Texas officials below.  Tell them that a border wall isn’t appropriate for the prevention of illegal border crossings in the Big Bend Region.  Tell them that you oppose the border wall in the Big Bend Region.  The use of detection technology, best practices for border security, and the naturally rugged landscape will do the job in the Big Bend Region.  Contact:

1. Governor Greg Abbott:  512-463-1782 and https://gov.texas.gov/apps/contact-us/opinion

2. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick:  512-463-5342 and https://www.ltgov.texas.gov/contact/contact-general/

3. Texas Parks & Wildlife Commissioners:   commission@tpwd.texas.gov

4. Texas Senator Ted Cruz:  https://www.cruz.senate.gov/contact/write-ted

5. Texas Senator John Cornyn:  https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/share-opinion/

6. For your U.S. Representative:  https://capitol.texas.gov/ Scroll down to “Who Represents Me?”, fill in the information, and submit this for your U.S. Representative’s name and contact information.      

Don’t delay, call and email today!  Our Texas Big Bend Region landscape is in danger.  Stop the border wall in the Big Bend Region!!!   

Photo by Al Braden.