For more than eleven years, the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance has made protecting the wild landscapes of our state its primary focus. That will not change as we move forward. Having said that, we have also found reason to help protect lands elsewhere, and there is some promising new developments taking place this very moment.

For the past few years, the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance has been working with the superintendents of Guadalupe and Big Bend national parks in Texas on a range of issues, including the reintroduction and management of native species.

For Big Bend, we’re trying to have more than 600,000 acres placed into the Wilderness Preservation System. Along the Mexican side of the border, across from Big Bend, lay 1.8 million protected acres, encompassing Sierra del Carmen, Ocampo, and Cañon de Santa Elena. What makes this important is the opportunity to create an international peace park. A significant precedent was established thirty-two years ago when Glacier National Park, on our northern border, and Waterton Park on the Canadian side, were declared an international peace park. The idea came from U.S. and Canadian citizens and members of the International Rotary Club, who felt they had strong connections that transcended national borders.

Read more about these efforts on our website by clicking here.

Earlier today (July 30), a Resolution was introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX), supporting an international park between Big Bend National Park in the United States and the protected areas of the Coahuila and Chihuahua States across the border in Mexico.

This is tremendous news!

Read the Resolution here:International Park Resolution

Please take the time to send a free fax to Congressman Rodriguez, thanking him for this resolution and to also urge New Mexico’s congressional delegation to support this important step forward in establishing this international peace park.

Send your free fax here: http://ga1.org/campaign/peacepark