Flack Farm

Dear Friends,

I am writing to you today with a heavy heart—but also with hope.

This note is not about politics or party lines. Truly. It’s about our shared community, our shared landscape, and the spirit that brings so many of us to Big Bend in the first place.

Right now, the Department of Homeland Security has fast-tracked construction of a physical steel wall through Big Bend National Park and nearby Big Bend Ranch State Park lands. All environmental studies and protections have been waived. We are being told that construction could begin in just a few weeks. Things are already moving fast on the ground. Local businesses and landowners are being approached daily as contractors scramble to house 600 workers who would build this wall. Our own electrical company was contacted to attempt to hire us to begin the electrical portion of the camps intended to house them!

If this moves forward, the impact will be devastating and permanent:
• 116 miles of Big Bend National Park land and access to the Rio Grande will be lost- basically conceding it ALL to Mexico
• Over 20 miles of riverfront land will be gone, from the parks, from the landowners, etc.
• Hoodoos and Balanced Rock trails will be permanently inaccessible
• Paddling through Colorado Canyon would be blocked forever
• Several area campgrounds will have to close
• There will be no access to the Langford Hot Springs
• Wildlife corridors for black bears, mountain lions, and many other species will be cut off
• Multiple irreplaceable archaeological sites will be destroyed
• Our internationally recognized dark skies will be polluted by unnecessary permanent lighting
• Our landscape will be altered forever—this damage cannot be undone

Please sign the petition, write, call, email your representatives and follow for more ways to take action.

Thank you!

Potatoes are in the ground! Drip system is set back up, tested and repaired. Onions are settling in nicely. Strawberries are blooming. Garden is tilled and resting before planting more as it warms up. ❤️