A proposal first touted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to create an international park along the U.S.-Mexico border may be closer to reality than ever before. Secretary of the Interior Ken Sa lazar said Friday that his department is steadily working toward a viable plan to turn the sprawling Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande in West Texas into a unified park across the border. "The vision President Roosevelt had back in 1935 É is still true today," Salazar said during a visit to the 801,000-acre desert park. "We have our eyes on Big Bend National Park." But the goal -- a binational park that preserves both biologically sensitive lands and wildlife migration paths and allows easy tourist access from one park to the other -- has some big obstacles in its path, including issues of immigration and border security, the secretary said...read more
COMMENT: It will be interesting to see how they work out the border security issues. A Park, unlike a Monument, takes an act of Congress so the Texas delegation will get to weigh in on this.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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