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Dozens of people attend TxDOT’s public hearing on expanding the Loop 375 Border Highway through the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in Soccorro, Texas on May 2, 2024.

El Paso residents rally to protect a Rio Grande wetland from possible highway project

Potential routes for a highway in El Paso’s Mission Valley run alongside a restored wetland called Rio Bosque. Environmental advocates are urging TxDOT to scrap the idea.


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El Paso lost its wetlands — until Rio Bosque

John Sproul, manager of the Rio Bosque Park (right), works with a group of students from Jefferson High School carrying cut branches of invasive salt cedar to be disposed of in the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park. TxDOT is planning an expansion of the Loop 375 Border Highway through the park in Socorro, Texas. May 4, 2024.
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Growing pains in the Mission Valley

The elevated section of Loop 375 Border Highway between the border wall and Rio Grande near downtown El Paso, Texas. TxDOT is planning an expansion of the Loop 375 Border Highway through the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in Socorro, Texas with alternative elevated designs proposed similar to the one shown. May 6, 2024.

“A rewilding success story” 

A man birdwatching at the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park. Earlier in the day TxDOT held a public comment meeting on expanding the Loop 375 Border Highway through the park in Socorro, Texas on May 2, 2024.
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Sticky notes voicing opposition to TxDOT’s proposed expansion of the Loop 375 Border Highway through the Rio Bosque Wetlands Park in Soccorro, Texas on May 2, 2024.

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