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Instead of a Border Wall, CBP Plans to Pave Backcountry Roads Along Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park
After severe and sustained bipartisan blowback—including from all Big Bend border sheriffs, all Texas border county judges , and countless furious locals—it appears that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has stepped away from its plans to build a 30-foot-high border wall through Big Bend National Park. In a May 4 article in the Washington Examiner , CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, who’s the administration’s top border official, said that “Big Bend National Park has some just, like, unbelievably huge granite cliffs. It would be kind of silly to put like a 30-foot border wall on top of a 9
May 12, 2026
Steve Pearce Inches Closer to Becoming BLM Director on the Same Day the Agency Finalizes "Public Lands Rule" Rescission
Today, May 11, the U.S. Senate voted on S. Res. 690 , an arcane procedure that considered the en bloc consideration of 49 presidential nominees. That includes Steve Pearce’s nomination for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director. The Senate passed the resolution along party line
May 12, 2026
Smithsonian Opens "Bison: Standing Strong" Exhibit While Trump Administration Kicks Bison Off Our Public Lands
“When we connect with nature, we heal ourselves. When we protect nature, we heal the planet.” - Ted Turner, cable-news legend and bison conservationist Ten years ago, on May 9, 2016 , President Barack Obama signed a short bill of barely three pages. The National Bison Legacy Act
May 9, 2026