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11 April 2022

AXIOS: The Push for a New National Monument in West Texas

Advocates want the Biden administration to declare 7,000 acres outside El Paso, Texas, a national monument to give Mexican Americans and others in the area needed public space for hiking and other outdoor activities.
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11 April 2022

EL PASO TIMES: Escobar Calls on Biden to Protect Castner Range, says El Paso has Been 'Overlooked' in Environmental Matters

El Paso residents have called for the protection of Castner Range for more than 50 years. Now, advocates see the Biden administration as their window of opportunity to preserve the land in perpetuity.
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25 March 2022

CAPITOL WEEKLY: Protecting California’s public lands is a top priority

My love of nature started in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. As a child, I went there to hike and enjoy trips with my father. Since then, going out into nature has become…
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17 March 2022

THE HILL: Clean water is Key to Conservation Equity

This week my mind is on clean water. While the Biden administration is designing new programs for conservation like America the Beautiful, Congress continues to negotiate a bill to make historic investments in climate and…
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28 January 2022

EL DIARIO: Realizan caminata a favor de Castner Range

Para apoyar la iniciativa de protección de Castner Range –un antiguo campo de tiro de Fort Bliss–, representantes de diversos grupos comunitarios, encabezados por el regidor del Distrito 1 de El Paso, Peter Svarzbein, realizaron…
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18 January 2022

EL PASO TIMES: Castner Range deserves protection as a national monument: Pastor Moses Borjas

I grew up on the Westside of El Paso. My dad loved to go to the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, right next to Castner Range in Northeast El Paso, then take us on the…
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