A meeting to discuss ways to put this project back on the US Mexico conservation radar screen is planned in El Paso on October 7, 2025. Contact us to learn more.
If you know anything about Texas conservation history, you know that back in the 1930s a group of people including members of Rotary International and government officials in the US and Mexico, worked together on a plan to create a giant international park on the US Mexico border. It all got started in the Big Bend area of Texas and northern Mexico after Albert William Dorgan, a naval aviator, real estate developer, inventor, landscape architect and cotton farmer wrote a letter to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. In his letter of October 8, 1934, Dorgan proposed plans for protecting the Big Bend area as a park and a year later suggested “The U.S. and Mexican International Peace Park”.
A timeline of important events has been compiled, but after all these years both countries have yet to come up with a road map that lays out how such a protected area could be established with the full support of both countries.
On January 29, 2025 the Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition Board of Directors discussed plans to help rekindle the long-proposed dream of a giant US Mexico transboundary protected area at Big Bend National Park in Texas and other protected areas along the border in both the US and Mexico.
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A meeting to discuss ways to put this project back on the US Mexico conservation radar screen is planned in El Paso on October 7, 2025. Contact us to learn more.