Protecting the Christmas Mts. and Big Bend

[SHANEA]

Summer report from Luke Metzger, Director of Environment Texas.  I'm a "card carrying" member and financial supporter of Environment Texas.   

http://www.environmenttexas.org/preserving-texas/save-the-christmas-mountains

Be sure and sign the petition at https://www.environmenttexas.org/action/preserving-texas/save-the-christmas-mountains

This needs to be made an election year priority.

[partsdude]

 Typical friggin' politicians! I wish there was a way if they did something stupid or corrupt they could be strung up by their thumbs.

[presidio]

Typical friggin' politicians! I wish there was a way if they did something stupid or corrupt they could be strung up by their thumbs.

There is, after a fashion. It's called not re-electing the SOBs so they can't keep doing stupid and corrupt things. However, this should not be misconstrued as an endorsement of the idea the NPS should get the Christmas Mtns. They shouldn't. It's partly because the NPS also does stupid and corrupt things (reference the Ken Burns NPS lovefest series for examples).

The referenced website has this gem of a statement: Just as awe-inspiring are the Christmas Mountains that rise up above Big Bend’s northwest border, with a view the National Park Service has likened to “being on a mountain island surrounded by a desert sea, within which float other mountain islands.”

That's really funny. The mountains are so awe-inspiring that the NPS rejected several previous attempts in years' past to add them to the park because....they were not of the quality they expect THEIR lands to be. Everybody wants to overlook the fact that the NPS didn't care enough to take the land when it was offered but now they want to smother it with their 'unique' brand of management.