Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas(newsweek.com)

35 points by almog 4 hours ago | 10 comments

mapt 48 minutes ago |

Will Mexico be paying for us to destroy this national park? If not, why not?

bombas 42 minutes ago | |

You are joking…right?

metalman 1 hour 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.

WorkingDead 1 hour 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.

mrits 1 hour 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.

snowwrestler 55 minutes ago | | |

They are; the whole idea of a national park is to have a minimum of roads so that natural splendor is preserved.

jameskilton 1 hour ago |

I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.

csh0 48 minutes 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.

serf 39 minutes 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.

bombas 42 minutes ago | |

It’s a National Park doofus, we should all be angry