Big Bend border wall protest at Texas Parks and Wildlife hearing

Jessica Bartko, of Terlingua, and Mark Resendez, of San Antonio, hang a banner during a protest of border wall construction in the Big Bend region outside Texas Parks and Wildlife Department headquarters in Austin on Aug. 19, 2026. The demonstrators gathered ahead of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission’s annual public hearing, where advocates planned to urge the commission to intervene in proposed border barrier construction inside Texas state parks.