You’ve probably heard about the Trump administration’s plans for a border wall through Big Bend. Or its plans not to build a wall at all, but instead to put up a futuristic forcefield of lights and sensors. You may have even heard that public pressure backed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into a corner and they’ve scrapped said plans altogether.
If you’ve been confused by the competing headlines about Texas’ biggest national and state park over the last six months, you’re not alone. Even people like me—one half of the two-person team that broke the story—have been scrambling to keep up.
