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We Can’t Look Away From the Bulldozers at Santa Elena Canyon
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Editors’ note: Subscribers to the Texas Daily newsletter will receive a version of this story bright and early on Monday. Sign up to get stories and news in your inbox each morning here. For so many Texans, the mouth of Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park is an evocative, almost spiritual symbol of the region itself. With the Rio Grande cutting through the towering rock, it’s also one of the most visceral—and gorgeous—reminders that a border runs through the pristine landscape. In a 1980 ode to Big Bend, longtime Texas Monthly contributor Stephen Harrigan described the landmark as “extraordinarily, soporifically peaceful.” More recently, Sam Karas,…The post We Can’t Look Away From the Bulldozers at Santa Elena Canyon appeared first on Texas Monthly.