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Aug 17, 2026
Big Bend has the darkest measured night sky in the entire lower 48. The kind of dark you can't get back once you start cutting roads and putting up lights. I’m sure you saw that contractors started...
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The Department of Homeland Security is fast-tracking a $1.7 billion border wall project through Big Bend National Park using no-bid contracts awarded to companies with Trump campaign ties, waiving environmental and archaeological protection laws while destroying dark skies, endangered species habitat, and thousands of unexamined archaeological sites to stop a small number of border crossings.
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