Trump Wants to Bulldoze Big Bend. He’s Already Looted the Rest of the Park System.

The national park barely sees any border crossings. But that's not the point.

There’s a particular kind of quiet in Big Bend National Park that can be hard to find anywhere else in the Lower 48.

It’s the hushed Chihuahuan Desert at night where the Milky Way seems close enough to touch, the surprising breeze at the summit of Emory Peak, and the power of the Rio Grande cutting through limestone canyons that took millions of years to…