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Report: Physical border wall no longer planned for Texas’ revered Big Bend wilderness

Both the Big Bend national and state parks appear spared from a physical border wall. However, surrounding ranchlands remain threatened by proposed construction.

A steel border wall appears to be off the table for beloved West Texas natural areas Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, newspaper the Big Bend Sentinel reports. Instead, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol records now show the Trump administration’s plans have been scaled back to a “surveillance only” barrier of […]

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