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New episode of The Landscape! Borderlands part 1: The threats to public lands on the border Featuring an interview with @laikenjordahl.bsky.social of @biologicaldiversity.org Listen: 📺 youtu.be/JxKEzNOSIUc 🎙️ Find The Landscape wherever you get your podcasts!

Borderlands part 1: The threats to public lands at the border

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Great talking to @laikenjordahl.bsky.social about how we're going to deal with this admin over Big Bend.

Rewilding Institute@rewilding.org · 5mo ago

Jack Humphrey and the Rewilding Earth podcast sit down with the Center for Biological Diversity’s National Public Lands Advocate Laiken Jordahl to discuss the current administration’s plan to extend border wall construction to Big Bend National Park and the West Texas borderlands.

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 this scale of destruction. READ: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The feds are moving forward with plans to wall off the Big Bend region. Some reports say walls are "off the table" in the state park, but DHS hasn't canceled construction contracts or restored the legal protections they stripped. Nobody is crossing here. Look at those cliffs.

BREAKING: we're suing CBP for hiding plans to wall off Big Bend. CBP refuses to release basic details, leaving local communities, outfitters & landowners in the dark. This wall would permanently destroy their livelihoods—and CBP won’t say a word to them. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

We teamed up with Texas Civil Rights Project today and sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection for withholding public records on plans to build border walls through the #BigBend region of Texas. More info: biodiv.us/4dzdxv4

A Terlingua business owner says he just turned down half a million dollars rather than help house border wall construction crews. Contractors are offering huge sums of money to lock up lodging for wall crews, but these rural communities won't sell out to destroy their own home.

My Q and A with @yessfun.com on the Big Bend Border wall: "Big Bend the one place left that allows you to dream of what the border could be. If they wall this place off, it'll extinguish our ability to dream of a better future for the borderlands." www.possibilities.news/big-bend-bor...

Yes, Trump Is Building a Wall Through (More) Public Lands

These assholes have absolutely no chill.

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More than 130 orgs, outfitters & rural Texas businesses are urging Congress to block funds for border wall construction through Big Bend. Walls here would cut off public river access, decimate rural economies & block wildlife from their only reliable water source.

Brewster County, TX, just passed a formal resolution against the border wall Big Bend National Park & Big Bend Ranch State Park, signed by Republican Judge Greg Hennington. They join Jeff Davis & Presidio Counties & many regional towns urging DHS to preserve public access to the Rio Grande.

Big Bend border wall protest this morning in Terlingua, Texas, population 138. Rural Texas is not going to let this administration come lock their river behind a wall of steel.

Standing room only tonight for a screening of “The River and the Wall” and forum about Big Bend border wall construction in Marfa, TX. A quarter of the town’s population is here, and they’re seriously mobilizing against the project.

Don’t mess with Texas, right? Well, Trump is picking a fight with Big Bend, the most sacred and publicly loved 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.

ALERT: I'm seeing headlines like this claiming victory on the Big Bend border wall. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE. All DHS did was change the color of a line on a map. DHS engineers have mapped out a course for the wall in Big Bend National Park. They showed their cards. (thread 1/6)

DHS is rapidly moving forward with plans to wall off virtually every river access point to Big Bend National Park. This would effectively end all whitewater boating on this world-class stretch of the Rio Grande, killing the recreation economy and robbing this majesty from us all.

The Senate ENR committee advanced Steve Pearce’s nomination this morning. Our response: “Pearce is Trump’s hand-picked hatchet man to liquidate the West for private profit. Every senator who voted for him showed they’re willing to let our country’s wildest places be torn up and sold for parts."

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Testifying before the Senate, President Trump's pick to run the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Steve Pearce, wouldn't give a straight answer on whether he supports selling off public lands: www.publicdomain.media/p/trumps-blm... via @chrisdangelo.bsky.social

DHS is pushing to wall off Big Bend National Park, a crown jewel of America’s natural heritage. Yet across the 517-mile Big Bend Sector— an area larger than California—DHS apprehended just 151 migrants last month. The park itself is only a tiny slice of that vast, remote border.

DHS is rapidly pushing to wall off Big Bend National Park. Big Bend's former NPS superintendent says: “This is the biggest incursion on the integrity of national parks since the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite more than a century ago.” www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Even MAGA Republicans Hate Plans to Put a Border Wall in Big Bend

Virtually no one, it seems, thinks a physical barrier in the region is a good idea. The Trump administration is rushing to build one anyway.

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Confirming Pearce would put many of our favorite campsites, streams, and hiking trails across the West directly in the crosshairs 🎯🎯 Save our #PublicLands! Urge your Senators to VOTE NO on Steve Pearce for BLM Director by calling them at 202-224-3121 and by clicking this link ➡️ biodiv.us/pearce

Laiken Jordahl@laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A Senate committee votes weds on Steve Pearce for Bureau of Land Management director. Pearce's entire career is defined by an outright disdain for public lands. If appointed, he'll rapidly advance Mike Lee's sell off plans & move to hand vast swaths of America's lands over to private industry.

A Senate committee votes weds on Steve Pearce for Bureau of Land Management director. Pearce's entire career is defined by an outright disdain for public lands. If appointed, he'll rapidly advance Mike Lee's sell off plans & move to hand vast swaths of America's lands over to private industry.

National parks are understaffed, underfunded & under attack. A new poll shows 86% of Westerners say cuts to NPS funding is a serious problem. But a tiny group of DC insiders who wouldn't last a day in the wilderness want to dismantle the natural heritage that belongs to us all.

Trump just nominated a corporate stooge with no conservation experience to run the National Park Service. It's another huge step in this admin's plan to hand America’s most cherished public lands over to extractive industries, real estate developers & corporate interests. We're fighting back.

Trump's nominee to lead the National Park Service, Scott Socha, helped run a company that claimed trademark ownership over historic place names at Yosemite—many rooted in Indigenous history—then sued the NPS over name use, costing taxpayers millions. Now he wants to run the agency? Disgraceful.

"This admin doesn't see parks like Yosemite, Yellowstone & the Grand Canyon as national treasures, but as branding opportunities & profit makers... They'll stop at nothing until they're carved up for profit & turned into playgrounds for the ultra-rich.” www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/02/upda...

“Trump and his cowardly border officials want to rob this iconic place from all of us, locking away our swimming holes, hiking trails and desert vistas behind a monstrous steel wall, even as border crossings are at record lows.” www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...

Trump administration waiving environmental regulations for border walls in Big Bend area

A preliminary federal notice says the Department of Homeland Security is moving to waive a wide range of environmental regulations to speed up “barriers and roads” building in the Big Bend region of W...

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BREAKING: DHS waives dozens of laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend State Park. They want to rob this iconic western landscape from all of us, locking away our fishing holes & campsites behind concrete and steel. It's a grotesque act of political vandalism.

Trump just nominated a corporate stooge with no conservation experience to run the National Park Service. It's another huge step in this admin's plan to hand America’s most cherished public lands over to extractive industries, real estate developers & corporate interests. We're fighting back.

These former Republican & Democratic Forest Service chiefs -- folks who rarely agree on anything -- are rallying together to protect the roadless rule from Trump's push to slash it & open up our wild forests to industry takeover. thehill.com/opinion/ener...

Public lands aren’t a culture war in the West. Despite corporate politicians like Mike Lee & Steve Pearce pushing to hand them over to industry, voters in deep-red states oppose efforts to sell off & dismantle them. Western voters reject Pearce for BLM nominee. www.mtexpress.com/news/environ...

Survey shows 72% of Idaho voters oppose Trump nominee to head BLM

A survey of 503 registered Idaho voters conducted this month showed that they largely oppose Trump-nominated U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-New Mexico, to head up the U.S. Bureau of Land

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