Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas(www.newsweek.com)
46 pointsby almog6 hours ago5 comments
  • mapt2 hours ago
    Will Mexico be paying for us to destroy this national park? If not, why not?
    • bombas2 hours ago
      You are joking…right?
      • bdcravens20 minutes ago
        It's satire, because this is an expansion of the border wall.

        "....the Trump administration's plans to expand the president's border wall across one of the country's most remote national parks."

  • Dieselroar8836 minutes ago
    Very sad and such a tragedy.

    I spent some time there on a drive across the country and it was stunning.

  • WorkingDead3 hours ago
    They are building a road to get to a hard to reach area of the park. I don't think this is a reason to panic.
    • mrits3 hours ago
      "The administration is preparing to blast hundreds of miles of destructive roads through the wildest place left in Texas and cut off public access to the Rio Grande, all to enrich private contractors."

      I think anyone on either side of this opinion could have made a better complaint than what they came up with. It sounds like they are upset with the idea of roads in general.

      • snowwrestler3 hours ago
        They are; the whole idea of a national park is to have a minimum of roads so that natural splendor is preserved.
        • mritsan hour ago
          Natural splendor includes forest fires and suffering animals. This line of thinking didn't work out so well for Australia
          • snowwrestleran hour ago
            > Natural splendor includes forest fires and suffering animals.

            Correct

          • tweetle_beetlean hour ago
            Animals in Australia are suffering due to a lack of automobile infrastructure?
  • metalman3 hours ago
    This is a perfect oportunity to pass public private eco laws where wind mills and solar are combined with data centers on former parks that are now designated security zones, as it is the ONLY logical solution to the complex problems of our times.
  • jameskilton3 hours ago
    I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.
    • bdcravens22 minutes ago
      A majority did, but Texas isn't unified politically. There's actually more blue voters in Texas than in many "blue" states. (And the inverse is true in California)
    • csh02 hours ago
      Texas is not a monolith. The people who are decrying this action are local conservation groups and activists. These are not necessarily the same people who voted to put the current administration in power.

      To simply write this off as “they deserve it” would be a mistake, and is unproductive.

      • serf2 hours ago
        Great, I'm glad we settled this once and for all this so that I don't have to shoulder any more blame from Europeans about trump being president.
    • frankharv6 minutes ago
      The article said 10,000 people Illegally Crossed the border in this region.

      Its not the VOTERS fault foreigners do not use border entry points.

      We had a system of immigration that was abused by foreigners and now it has stopped.

    • bombas2 hours ago
      It’s a National Park doofus, we should all be angry