#big bend

⭐ THE CATS OF BIG BEND ✨ historic & modern edition!

This time I also included some of the historical cats of Big Bend National Park. The jaguar, jaguarundi, and ocelot are considered extremely rare or extirpated from the park and region. Today, you are much more likely to spot a mountain lion or a bobcat, but both are incredibly elusive.

This is an art series I am interested in continuing. Do you have any suggestions for national parks around the world with multiple native cat species? If so, I'd love to hear them for future similar drawing ideas!

Terlingua, Texas

Tapestry of the Stars...

We’re slipping into that sacred stretch of the year when the spine of the galaxy reveals itself… when the Milky Way’s glowing heart rises like a quiet fire across the dark.

Leave the cities behind. Let their electric constellations fade in your rearview.

Go where the night still breathes.

Stand beneath the vast silence of Yosemite National Park, or wander into the velvet darkness of Big Bend, where the stars don’t just shine… they press close, like they’ve been waiting for you.

Out there, the sky isn’t something you look at... it’s something you step into.

Goodnight & sweetest dreams.

©️beccawise7💜🖤

US Customs & Border Protection (CBP) is planning to build a 30ft steel border wall through the Big Bend region of Texas including Big Bend Ranch State Park and Big Bend National Park. This wall will destroy sacred indigenous sites and fragile archaeological sites, cut us off from accessing the Rio Grande for recreation and for peoples' livelihoods, and block wildlife from one of the only water sources in this vast desert ecosystem. It would leave a huge ugly scar across one of the most beautiful parts of the country and destroy the night sky in the largest International Dark Sky Reserve in the world. Not to mention the fact that despite being the largest sector of the border, Big Bend sees the lowest number of crossings due to its remoteness and harsh unforgiving desert landscape. Officials in the region, both Democrats and Republicans, all agree that the existing detection technology works well and a wall is not needed and is a huge waste of money. Residents who own land along the border have received threats of eminent domain if they do not provide access to construction crews to destroy their land. Locals are fighting hard to protect the landscape and their tourism economy from this devastation, but they need all our help, even if you don't live in Texas.

You can find more information about what is happening here.

Please please please take a few minutes to sign the petition, contact your reps, and give a public comment to CBP telling them NO WALL IN BIG BEND. There is guidance in the link below, and a sample comment linked here.

Please help us save this beautiful, special place.