Video footage shows heavy machinery operating in the famous Santa Elena Canyon amid outcry over new border infrastructure in Texas's most beloved park.
Great article. I hate to see it but these idiot Texan republicans are getting a taste of what they created. They voted this administration in and now we all have to suffer because of it. Keep up the great work Public Domain.
They've been destroying our parks for many months now. First it was the mining lease on land adjacent to or within the Boundary Waters Park in Minnesota. Not only is the lesser a foreign mining company but the beneficiaries will also be foreigners. Polluted water for both the U.S. and Canada is a certainty. Another, recently announced, is another mining contract in Utah near Escalante and Big Bear...I think they are reducing the National Park Area by 80-90%. The guy in charge of forests is in the process of granting permission to cut all those old growth trees in Oregon for lumber! The Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, thinks that his job is to get a return on all those assets he is in charge of. ROI in a monetary sense, not realizing that the ROI most of us want is in the form of protected land for recreational use by the citizens and residents of the U.S. There is a reason why so many of previous Presidents felt there was a need to protect those lands for future generations, otherwise one crazy man could come in and destroy it all!!! No one ever thought that Congress would become a fearful and compliant bunch of wimps.
They’ve proven it again and again: if anyone in the Trump administration opens their mouth, a lie is about to come out. 🤮Cruel, corrupt, contemptible and disgusting Rethuglican government destroying our country, democracy, and beautiful public lands for more short -term profit.
I am not ashamed of anything but the incompetent grifting rape-publican party and their Russian asset cult leader. After all, so many are standing up for what's right because the Gang of Pedophiles refuses to do their jobs...
Bulldozers and National Parks should probably not be in the same sentence.
Great article. I hate to see it but these idiot Texan republicans are getting a taste of what they created. They voted this administration in and now we all have to suffer because of it. Keep up the great work Public Domain.
They've been destroying our parks for many months now. First it was the mining lease on land adjacent to or within the Boundary Waters Park in Minnesota. Not only is the lesser a foreign mining company but the beneficiaries will also be foreigners. Polluted water for both the U.S. and Canada is a certainty. Another, recently announced, is another mining contract in Utah near Escalante and Big Bear...I think they are reducing the National Park Area by 80-90%. The guy in charge of forests is in the process of granting permission to cut all those old growth trees in Oregon for lumber! The Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, thinks that his job is to get a return on all those assets he is in charge of. ROI in a monetary sense, not realizing that the ROI most of us want is in the form of protected land for recreational use by the citizens and residents of the U.S. There is a reason why so many of previous Presidents felt there was a need to protect those lands for future generations, otherwise one crazy man could come in and destroy it all!!! No one ever thought that Congress would become a fearful and compliant bunch of wimps.
The precedent scares me also
They’ve proven it again and again: if anyone in the Trump administration opens their mouth, a lie is about to come out. 🤮Cruel, corrupt, contemptible and disgusting Rethuglican government destroying our country, democracy, and beautiful public lands for more short -term profit.
I AM ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN 😞
I am not ashamed of anything but the incompetent grifting rape-publican party and their Russian asset cult leader. After all, so many are standing up for what's right because the Gang of Pedophiles refuses to do their jobs...
How to share location details confidentially: Bulldozers destroying Big Bend National Park
https://thedemlabs.org/2026/08/12/confidential-location-sharing-guide/
This is definitely a context where some high profile monkeywrenching would probably be successful in stopping it.