Big Bend National Park Mexico the United States and a Borderland Ecosystem 1st Edition by Michael Welsh 1948908824 9781948908825

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ISBN 10: 1948908824

ISBN 13: 9781948908825

Author: Michael Welsh

Known as a place of stark beauty, dramatic geographic dimension, and challenging desert terrain, Big Bend National Park is located in West Texas on the north bank of the Rio Grande, adjacent to the Mexican states of Coahuila and Chihuahua. Although a place of natural grandeur, the unique location of this 118-mile long, 1.5 million-acre corridor has led to many challenges between the United States and Mexico, two nations who share one ecosystem but inhabit different political worlds. Big Bend National Park explores the cultural and diplomatic history of this transborder region that was designated a national park on the US side and the site of a long-hoped-for “international peace park” on the other. Michael Welsh demonstrates the challenges faced and lessons learned by both the US and Mexico as they struggled against political and environmental vicissitudes in their attempts to realize the creation of a shared frontier. Geopolitical and environmental conflicts such as Cold War fears, immigration, the war on drugs, international water rights, and more stringent American border security measures after 9/11 all hindered relations between the two countries. But more recently, renewed cooperation and ongoing diplomatic relations have led to new developments. Mexican park personnel began assisting American officials with efforts to re-wild the American side of the river with animal species that had been eliminated, and the Obama administration relaxed some post-9/11 restrictions, allowing American visitors to cross over to the Mexican park and its nearby towns. The ambition of developing a park for peace has yet to materialize, even as individuals and their governments continue to work toward an accord. Big Bend National Park provides a greater understanding of this complex borderland and hopes to help fulfill the aspiration of creating a shared ecosystem and the dream of a park for peace.

Big Bend National Park Mexico the United States and a Borderland Ecosystem 1st Table of contents:

1. Once There Was Only a River—The Cultural Landscape of Big Bend

2. Saving the Last Frontier—The Big Bend Park Initiative

3. Science Comes to a Wild Land

4. Dreaming of a Park for Peace

5. The River Becomes a Border—Big Bend in an Age of Unity and Change

6. Guardians or Warriors? Rangers in the Cold War Years

7. An Old Tale for a New Time—Ghosts, Dreams, and Walls

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