Big Bend is 79 and wild. Congress should keep it that way. (Editorial)
was tracking stolen mules in trans-Pecos Texas. The mules and their rustlers led him into the green and majestic Chisos Mountains inside the great looping arc of the Rio Grande. In years to come, Townsend liked to tell people that what he experienced in the glorious isolation of the Chisos made him “see God as he had never seen Him before.”. He had already been a cowboy, a Texas Ranger and a deputy U.S.
“The Father of the Big Bend” died in 1948 at age 77, having lived long enough to see his dream fulfilled. Were Townsend alive today, we suspect he would be pleased that the splendid isolation that transformed his life is having the same soul-stirring effect on more visitors than ever before.
Park Superintendent Bob Krumenaker, a 41-year veteran of the National Park Service, working alongside the Big Bend Conservancy and a loosely organized coalition of park lovers called Keep Big Bend Wild , has been holding town hall-style meetings in communities throughout the Big Bend region, providing information and responding to questions and concerns about an initiative Congress can take to help maintain the balance. It’s called the Big Bend National Park Wilderness Act.
As Superintendent Krumenaker explained to a town-hall gathering in Alpine recently, he and his predecessors have operated the park as if the 1978 recommendation had been adopted, but there are no guarantees that one of his successors or a future administration in Washington might decide otherwise. Krumenaker believes the park needs guarantees to prevent, say, a snack bar at Balanced Rock or a sprawling lodge at the base of majestic Santa Elena Canyon.
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