Jeff Weigel

Work for @nature_org, @nature_tx, conservationist, dad, husband, friend. Love Texas, Mexico, Wisconsin lands, waters and people. Packer fan for life. My tweets

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

About 150-230M birds are predicted to migrate across the U.S. each night this weekend!

Lights at night can be very disorienting to birds during their long fall migration. To help prevent deadly bird collisions, turn off or dim unnecessary lights!

Graphic: CornellLab, BirdCast

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

State water planners don’t use climate projections when they plan for Texas' future water supply.

Experts say they should model for more extreme droughts rather than relying on historical data. https://t.co/NYUsrLTNz5

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Insurance companies used to price climate risk. Now, in the places climate change has hit hardest, they’ve stopped even trying. Cue foreclosure notices, gutted tax bases, and neighborhoods that can’t get a mortgage: a 1-point jump in non-renewal rates (2x the national average) triggers a 16.5% crash in bottom-tier home values, an 8.6% drop in retail sales, and surging foreclosures

Just look at Florida!

New NYU Stern paper:
https://t.co/zcxoiCXBn1

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

The resistance to Big Bend border construction is a force to be reckoned with. And it's just getting started.

While there may be a temporary “pause” on construction within the national park, contractors are plowing forward everywhere else in the region. Man camps are going up, steel bollards are being shipped in for the wall, and the federal government is sending eminent domain threats to landowners up and down the Rio Grande. This fight is just getting started.

We demand that CBP cancel all five needless construction contracts across the entire Big Bend region. The only people who stand to benefit from this wall are the billionaire contractors raking in taxpayer dollars — an obscene $7 billion — to bulldoze their way through the wildest corner of Texas.

[Outdoor Alliance @OutdoorAlliance]

A comment period to defend the Roadless Rule is open now.

Here’s what’s at stake:
45 million acres of forests
Over 25,000 miles of trails
Clean air and water
Wildlife and habitat

We have until September 21 to make our voice heard: https://t.co/cl26cBkIaF

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

For 25 years, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule protected our nation’s most iconic forests from harmful roadbuilding. But the Trump administration just moved to gut it. Once roads are cut through these forests, we can’t get their values back. https://t.co/UZNJcabH6o

[The Nature Conservancy @nature_org]

The Roadless Rule—which is now in danger of being repealed—is a powerhouse for the outdoor recreation economy in the U.S.

Each year, millions of people enjoy hiking, hunting and more in the nearly 60 million acres of national forest and national grassland that the Roadless Rule protects.

Join us in speaking up for the Roadless Rule. ⬇️ https://t.co/ArrjgEkDxU

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

BREAKING: We’ve documented significant clearing of protected desert land inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Quitobaquito Springs for the Trump admin’s second border wall that will run parallel to the existing 30-foot-tall wall.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Raymond was my supervisor when I worked at Big Bend National Park. His life's work was to protect the wildlife and wilderness lands there.

Now, DHS is trying to eminent domain his ranch so they can build "vehicle barriers" above these 200-ft cliffs no car could ever cross.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

After bulldozers entered Big Bend National Park, hundreds of Texans came to Wednesday’s meeting to ask the agency to keep federal border barriers out of state parks. https://t.co/0DmWk8XP10

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

New entry into the data center wars: @GinaHinojosaTX going after Greg Abbott.

A woman uses an AI chatbot to ask why her electric bill is going up; it answers, Greg Abbott.

[Alexander @texaswaterpunk]

Incredible cast of veteran conservationists and friends present today from Dr. Carolyn Boyd, my hero Dr. Andrew "Andy" Sansom to photographer Sean Fitzgerald, spoke out today to demand that TPWD acts to protect state lands against CBP's billion-dollar big bend boondoggle.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Big Bend is the best place in the world. I’m glad CBP boss Rodney Scott is here to see it. I hope he’ll feel that too. The only course forward is to cancel the contracts, send these bulldozers home, and leave this beloved corner of Texas the hell alone.

[Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland @SheriffThad]

Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland interviews with CNN’s Jake Tapper and discusses Texas’ Big Bend.

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

Pam LeBlanc has visited Big Bend more than 40 times. Now, the guest columnist argues that border construction threatens the quiet, wild character that keeps drawing her — and countless others — back.

https://t.co/LYylqHF7Cl

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

Confused about Big Bend area border plans? Here’s an updated rundown from @MarfaRadio of what CBP says it’s planning across the region: https://t.co/7ZDqIFhE26

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

I want to raise an incredibly important point. In Greg Abbott’s carefully worded sleezeball announcement yesterday, he said that there would be no “wall” built in Big Bend. He very purposefully left out the word “road.”

They are destroying our state and using OUR tax dollars to do so.

Ask 5 friends TODAY to check their voter registration status. And then follow-up with them when early voting starts on October 19th to make sure that they VOTE.

That’s the only thing that stops this.

[San Antonio Express-News @ExpressNews]

Opinion | President Donald Trump is destroying Big Bend. We all must protect it. https://t.co/Afa93JFcit

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

Texas lawmaker gives a tour of the recent border construction work in @BigBendNPS near Mariscal Mountain.

This is such a remote part of an already way-out-there park it’s taken a few days for detailed views of the construction like this to surface:

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

"What is happening in Big Bend is an act of mindless zealotry being sold as border security. And it forces us to realize that the things of this earth that are beautiful and sacred and mysterious to most of us will always be regarded by a cynical, powerful few as just being in the way," says longtime Texas Monthly contributor Stephen Harrigan. https://t.co/amvKQqtZFb