{"id":6248,"date":"2026-08-17T18:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T18:39:36","slug":"trump-admin-caves-on-insane-bulldozing-of-big-bend-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin caves on ‘insane’ bulldozing of Big Bend National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trump administration has halted bulldozing inside Big Bend National Park after a wave of bipartisan opposition over construction in one of Texas’s most celebrated wilderness areas.<\/p>\n

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CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott announced the pause Monday, saying he had flown to Texas to conduct a personal evaluation of the terrain. The official said he would meet with local stakeholders and law enforcement before any further work proceeds.<\/p>\n

The agency has budgeted $1.72 billion for the project, according to CNN.<\/p>\n

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the work includes one new road, upgraded existing roads, detection technology and vehicle barriers.<\/p>\n

“I just landed in Texas headed to Big Bend National Park,” Scott said in a video posted Monday.<\/p>\n

“Last night, I put a pause on all activity in that park as far as construction goes until I can get down there and do a personal evaluation, talk to some stakeholders, talk to local law enforcement in that area, and more to follow this week,” he said.<\/p>\n

Bulldozers entered the park on Aug. 6, CNN reported, clearing brush and uprooting trees near Santa Elena Canyon before Scott’s announcement.<\/p>\n

Scott had described the agency’s activity to CNN as “survey and design work.”<\/p>\n

On X, Scott wrote that the project would involve “one new access road, improving existing roads, installing detection technology, and placing vehicle barriers in limited, strategic locations.”<\/p>\n

Bob Krumenaker, who spent five years as Big Bend’s superintendent and now chairs the Keep Big Bend Wild advocacy group, told CNN the entire plan is nothing short of “insane.”<\/p>\n

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“If they continue with this and build most of the things they have talked about, or even a good fraction of those, this will be the biggest desecration of the national park system \u2014 not just Big Bend National Park \u2014 since they built a dam in a pristine valley in Yosemite National Park more than 100 years ago,” Krumenaker said.<\/p>\n

“This is a story that our children and grandchildren will be telling,” he added. “It’s just a tremendous erosion, if not violation, of the agreement that Texans and the American people made when they established that national park.”<\/p>\n

“This is purely political, and it will, it risks destroying one of the nation’s greatest places.”<\/p>\n

The park accounts for only about 1% of apprehensions of unauthorized border crossers along the southern border, CNN noted.<\/p>\n

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last week urging him to meet with local stakeholders before any further construction proceeds, the Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham (R-TX) sent a cease-and-desist letter in July to U.S. Customs and Border Protection after she said a federal contractor worked in Big Bend Ranch State Park without permission, according to CNN.<\/p>\n

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