Terlingua Moon         June 23, 2026

Vol. 37, No. 25

Send your MOON news and submissions by Monday NOON for that week’s MOON. 

Email to terlinguamoon@gmail.com. 

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ALL YOU NEED TO ATTEND AN AA MEETING IS A DESIRE TO QUIT. 

If you have, or think you might have, a drinking problem, we meet at 6:30 pm on Thursday at the Big Bend Church, just north of the post office.

Saturday Community Market

Open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Located in the Ghost Town, down in the Community Garden, we're here every Saturday with happy vendors offering an array of locally produced goods and other items.

Local art, handcrafted textile goods, fresh eggs, sour dough bread, jelly, pickles, all natural lip balms and skin care products, all natural essential oil fragrances, beard oil and massage oils, handcrafted, creative jewelry, resin creations, practical and artistic items made of reclaimed steel and more -- you never know just what or who you'll find here. 

Flea market items are also welcome. After all, reusing and up-cycling already existing items is smart and green. We ask a $10 donation to the Community Garden to set up, helping us to continue to improve this space and experience for all of us. 

We welcome new vendors. To make it easy for new vendors to try our market and to show our appreciation to our regular vendors, we waive set-up fees on the first Saturday of the month, offering free set-up on that day.

For more information, text or call 432.213.1863 or pop in at the market for a chat. Prepared food vendors must display current food handling license. (A quick, easy and affordable online course can provide that).

Please help keep our market space safe and comfortable for all, two-legged and four, by keeping all dogs leashed and under control. We look forward to seeing you there.

KEEP BIG BEND WILD 

has sent in our comments to CBD with specific, point-by-point suggestions for them to exercise restraint and follow CBD Commissioner Scott’s stated commitment of  “responsible stewardship of the land and [to] minimize harm to the greatest extent practicable“ in Big Bend National Park.  We’ve posted a Call to Action which makes it easy for others to make similar points – it’s essential we flood them with as many rational comments with specific, practical suggestions for how they can modify their proposal – as irrational as that proposal is.  PLEASE SEND IN COMMENTS (Due July 13). 

Typically the most valuable comments are both fact-based and civil, and propose specific alternatives rather than just say “hell no,” much as we feel that way.  

KBBW’s comments can be found at https://keepbigbendwild.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/KBBW-Comments-to-CBP-2026June.pdf 

The Call to Action and suggestions for your comments can be found at https://keepbigbendwild.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/KBBW-talking-points-for-CBP-comments-2026June17.pdf 

Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Austin, along with the entire Texas Democratic Congressional delegation, sent an open letter to DHS Secretary Mullin June 16 urging him to rescind the waiver of all federal environmental and historic preservation laws inside the national park.  The letter covers much of the same ground as the KBBW-organized letter from almost all former Big Bend NP superintendents sent the day before, which is not a coincidence. KBBW is in regular contact with many Congressional offices.  

The Congressional letter can be found at https://doggett.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/doggett-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/quill-letter-l37359-oppose-environmental-waivers-in-big-bend-nps-version-2-06-16-2026-10-44-am.pdf. 

The Superintendents’ post-waiver letter can be found at https://keepbigbendwild.org/superintendents-post-waiver-letter-to-dhs/ 

Now is a critical time for the national park and the entire Big Bend area!  Please support Keep Big Bend Wild, a strategic partner in the No Big Bend Wall Coalition.  Donations to KBBW are welcome (we're financially sponsored by the El Paso Community Foundation, a 501c3), but we need you to allow us to list you as a supporter even more – no need to donate.  Local business supporters are especially important, and appreciated.  

All Energies

Sells the full Signature Solar online catalog. Order through All Energies, for the same price and support a local business

 Email allenergies.net@gmail.com or Text / Call (432) 242-1874

MILKY WAY TREATS

ice cream trailer is back and open this weekend!! Saturday thru Monday, 4-9pm. We’ll have our vanilla and dairy free mango soft serve (yes, Mangonadas!) Vacation is over and time to make ice cream! We’ll have our yummy Pecos Cantaloupe ice cream in pints plus a few new flavors! Gracias, Terlingua!

Tom’s Terlingua Auto

          We have some much needed summer vacation dates coming up in July. We will be closed 

Monday, July 6th - Thursday, July 16th.

Call us to get scheduled before then for all your automotive needs!

Jackass Flats Improvement Association, Inc.

Summer Flea Markets

Saturdays at the Pavillion

Open to all community members

All Summer Long!

Brewster County Regular Commissioners Court Meeting on June 23, 2026.

              Brewster County Regular Commissioners Court Meeting Agenda - June 23, 2026

Free medical clinic June 29 at Terlingua High School

Annette Smith, Assistant Director, Rural Community Relations.  Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Rural Osteopathic Medical Education  R.O.M.E./ T.R.H.A. UNT Health Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine(TCOM). three mission trip coordinators for the Texas Rural Health Association (TRHA). 

Are excited to have the opportunity this summer to serve your communities. We are coming down to bring FREE health clinics to your areas!

We know the fall sports season is coming up, so we are providing UIL sports physicals as well, and they are FREE! Please tell parents and coaches! 

The medical team will be at the Terlingua high school on Monday, June 29 from 10 am - 6pm. Come as early as you can but if you do get there at six, they will still see you until they finish everybody. They will do full physicals, diabetes, hypertension, sports physicals, sonagrams, PT OT evals, joint injections and more. Everything is free. Open to everybody and all ages. You just need to come to the high school and sign up that day. 

This medical team will be in Sanderson on Saturday, marathon on Sunday. Terlingua on monday,  sierra blanca and van horn on tuesday and then ozona on wednesday.

This is Anna Marie Posey and we will be providing food for late breakfast, lunch and supper for the group. I'm asking anyone in the community who would like to show their appreciation for the 40-50 coming to help our and other communities. Anyone who is willing to donate food and/or donate their time to come help us in set up, prepping food, serving, cleaning up in the kitchen at the high school at the end of the day. I would certainly appreciate all the help. You can contact me at 432 231 3833 to let me know. 

All volunteers are welcome. Any individuals or businesses that might be willing to donate breakfast tacos, potato salad, coleslaw, desserts or anything else please contact me to let me know, and so we can plan for what is needed.  Let's show our love and appreciation in the way that terlingua knows how. Thank you, and look forward to hearing from our community. Anna Marie Posey 432 231 3833. 

ARE YOU READY TO CATCH THE NEXT RAINFALL?

We can help - Call: TANKS A LOT TERLINGUA

Water Catchment Tanks, Pumps, Filters and Installation

Locally owned - located near the Terlingua Ranch Lodge.

Call Mark or Michelle: 432-371-3096 (home/office) or 806-781-7814 (cell)

Espresso ... y poco mas

Open at  7:30 a.m., seven days a week for home cooked breakfasts, lunches and the best coffee in the area. Smoothies and iced drinks.  Located in the Ghost Town, great seating with fantastic views, strong wifi, and newspapers.  432-371-3044 for to go orders.   

Taqueria El Milagro

Authentic Mexican food and more in the Ghost Town.   Serving  Mexican recipes from street tacos to steaks and huge side dishes. Great food, great setting.  BYOB. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 3 pm until 9 pm. 432-371-2060 for take out via our drive through window. 

"Terlingua Trash Pickup - weekly trash pickup for residential and business.

64 gallon can - $49.99 per month.

96 gallon can - $59.99 per month. 

We do Junk Removal too!

All the details and pricing on the website: www.terlinguatrash.com.

Alpine Humane Society,

In collaboration with Operation Kindness, Be Veterinary Consulting, Petco Love, and a grant from the State of Texas, is bringing the second annual FREE Terlingua Pet Clinic

to offer spay and neuter surgeries, vaccines, and microchips on August 28th and 29th, 2026.

Operation Kindness will be bringing a team of 8; Be Veterinary Consulting, a team of 3; and Alpine Humane Society, a team of 6 or 7.

 

 

Terlingua Moon 

Volume 37, Number 24 

June 16, 2026 by Abejita Chiquitita 

 

Send your MOON news and submissions by Monday NOON for that week’s MOON.  Email to terlinguamoon@gmail.com.  Please no PDFs or fancy fonts!  (We like it easy.)  On the web at:  theterlinguamoon.blogspot.com.  For 37 years, THE source for news in South Brewster County.  Updated every Tuesday (sometimes Monday). 

 

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.-- Louis Brandeis  

 

June 16 is Arborist Appreciation Day, Fresh Veggies Day, International Waterfall Day, and National Fudge Day! 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  

June 9, 2026  

Presidio County, Texas, Officials and Community Members  

  

Group Demands Dangerous Razor Wire Be Removed Before Flooding  

 U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Joint Task Force—Southern Border told coming seasonal floods will dislodge the razor wire, endangering lives along the Rio Grande  

 

A group of Presidio County, Texas, officials and community members is urging Joint Task Force–Southern Border and United States Customs and Border Protection to remove concertina wire installed in the Rio Grande floodplain in Presidio, Texas before seasonal flooding sends the wire downstream.  

  The joint letter challenges CBP’s May 7, 2026 statement that the wire is “appropriately secured to withstand seasonal flooding,” arguing that the installation fails to meet the Army’s own published engineering standards. Evidence suggests the pickets are driven into fine-grained alluvial soils that Army doctrine identifies as unsuitable for load-bearing installations and the wire itself is not secured to the pickets, likening the whole setup to “a toothpick pushed top-down through a stretched-out spiky slinky.”   

  The group warn that flood-mobilized razor wire would endanger residents, ranchers, livestock, wildlife, river guides, tourists, first responders, and border personnel while also trapping debris and altering river flows. They further argue that allowing flood-borne wire to obstruct the flow of the Rio Grande may conflict with federal law and treaty obligations governing the river as the international boundary between the United States and Mexico.   

  With recent regional flooding already requiring debris removal along FM 170 just downstream of the wire, the risk is no longer hypothetical and an immediate technical review and removal of the wire are requested.  

  The letter states that border security measures must comply with federal law, international treaty obligations, and established engineering and safety standards.  

  “We take the Army at its word: standards save lives. The standards are being violated. Lives are at risk as a result.”  

  To view the full letter and enclosures please navigate to: 

https://drive.proton.me/urls/W9KMMNYJM4#FRlwykAQoOhw 
CONTACT:   

Crystal Allbright  

432-386-0906  

tiacrystal@proton.me 

 

EARTH AND FIRE NEW GUEST ARTIST ALERT! 

We’re thrilled to welcome Tony Drewry as our guest artist for the month at Earth and Fire Gallery! His photography is truly a must-see. Tony captures the breathtaking beauty of Big Bend and the untamed spirit of West Texas in a way that is both stunning and unforgettable. Come by the Gallery and experience these beautiful images for yourself—you won’t want to miss them! 

 

FREE PET CLINIC 

Alpine Humane Society, in collaboration with Operation Kindness, Be Veterinary Consulting, Petco Love, and a grant from the State of Texas, is bringing the second annual FREE Terlingua Pet Clinic to offer spay and neuter surgeries, vaccines, and microchips on August 28th and 29th, 2026. 

Operation Kindness will be bringing a team of 8; Be Veterinary Consulting, a team of 3; and Alpine Humane Society, a team of 6 or 7. 

--We need donated lodging for 16 or 18 people from August 27th to the 31st.  There will be two veterinarians who prefer individual lodging, and several team members may room together. 

--We will also need breakfast and lunch on August 28th and 29th, as well as ice, water, drinks, and snacks during the clinic. 

--Brewster County is providing access to the Red Patillo Community Center. 

--We may need some help transporting wire kennels from Alpine to Terlingua. 

--If you can help advertise by hanging flyers, please let us know. 

--Monetary donations will help offset travel expenses, supplies, and staffing. 

 

If you, a friend, neighbor, or co-worker needs assistance with veterinary services, please contact Alpine Humane Society at 432-837-2532. 

We can provide tax-deductible donation receipts for any monetary or in-kind donations. 

To donate, offer support, or with any questions, contact Mary Ann Vega, Executive Director, Alpine Humane Society at 432-837-2532; the Thrift Store and Cattery at 432-837-3400; or email maryann@alpinehumanesociety.org 

 

TEMPLE OF THE BIRD will be hosting Broke String Burnett for a sunset show. Described as Swampy Western vibes Bluesy, old western style meets modern sound! They are only in town 1 night. ...and that night happens to be Kristina Lorek 's 46th birthday  so no excuses. Some see and help support a fun traveling band and wish that Old Hus a very happy birthday! Next Thursday, the 18th, y'all! 

 

UPCOMING JUNE  MUSIC & FUN EVENTS 
6/15 Monday: 
    Jeffro & Rob – Starlight  

6/18 & 19 Thursday & Friday: 
    Sarah Burton – Starlight 

6/20 Saturday: 
     Kate Pierson – Starlight  

6/22 Monday: 
      Jeffro & Rob – Starlight  

6/25 Thursday: 
      The Whitmores – Starlight 

6/26 Friday: 
      Richard Gans – Starlight 

6/27 Saturday: 
      Kate Pierson – Starlight  

6/29  Monday: 
      Jerome Efraim – Starlight 

 

 

COME SEE US AT THE SATURDAY COMMUNITY MARKET, open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Located in the Ghost Town, down in the Community Garden, we're here every Saturday with happy vendors offering an array of locally produced goods and other items. 

Local art, handcrafted textile goods, fresh eggs, sour dough bread, jelly, pickles, all natural lip balms and skin care products, all natural essential oil fragrances, beard oil and massage oils, handcrafted, creative jewelry, resin creations, practical and artistic items made of reclaimed steel and more -- you never know just what or who you'll find here.  

Flea market items are also welcome. After all, reusing and up-cycling already existing items is smart and green. We ask a $10 donation to the Community Garden to set up, helping us to continue to improve this space and experience for all of us.  

We welcome new vendors. To make it easy for new vendors to try our market and to show our appreciation to our regular vendors, we waive set-up fees on the first Saturday of the month, offering free set-up on that day. 

For more information, text or call 432.213.1863 or pop in at the market for a chat. Prepared food vendors must display current food handling licence. (A quick, easy and affordable online course can provide that). 

Please help keep our market space safe and comfortable for all, two-legged and four, by keeping all dogs leashed and under control. We look forward to seeing you there. 

 

KEEP BIG BEND WILD will be sending in our comments this week to CBP regarding their plans for border construction in the national park.  We’ll keep them civil.  We will post our comments later this week on the KBBW website at keepbigbendwild.org/border-issues/ along with a summary of points you can use for your comments.  There’s a lot of other useful info on border security and Big Bend National Park there as well. 

  In a typically confusing way, CBP has two distinct web sites which describe the proposed work in the national park and request comments.  They have similar, but not exactly the same, information. It’s worth looking at both this site and this one. 

  While we don’t know if CBP will pay any attention to comments, considering that they have waived all federal, state, and local laws that might force them to be accountable to the will of the people, we have to try.  Hopefully we can slow them down, and get them to back off, at a minimum, the most unnecessary and destructive aspects of their plans.  Comments are due July 13 – please voice your opinion. Typically the most valuable comments are both fact-based and civil, and propose specific alternatives rather than just say “hell no,” much as we feel that way.  

  On the legal front, KBBW is working with the Center for Biological Diversity on strategy, and they have now amended their lawsuit to include the areas covered by DHS’ June 9 waiver – Colorado Canyon, the entire national park, and Black Gap WMA.  They have specifically referenced the park-specific border statistics that KBBW is using to show that the national park is at the other extreme from being an “area of high illegal entry” as it is the quietest section of the entire US-Mexico border.  

  The ex-superintendents have written another open letter to the DHS Secretary, which will be published this week and posted on that KBBW border-issues page mentioned above.  More on that in next week’s Moon. 

  Please learn more at keepbigbendwild.org, and consider supporting Keep Big Bend Wild.  There's no more important time.  Donations are welcome (we're financially sponsored by the El Paso Community Foundation, a 501c3), but we need you to allow us to list you as a supporter even more – no need to donate.  Local business supporters are especially appreciated.   

  We're also looking for additional people to join our core team (ie the board), especially from the Big Bend area. Contact bob.krumenaker@keepbigbendwild.org to discuss. 

 

FREE MEDICAL CLINIC JUNE 29 AT TERLINGUA HIGH SCHOOL 

Annette Smith, Assistant Director, Rural Community Relations.  

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Rural Osteopathic Medical Education 

R.O.M.E./ T.R.H.A.  UNT Health Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine(TCOM).   

 

We are excited to have the opportunity this summer to serve your communities. We are coming down to bring FREE health clinics to your areas! 

We know the fall sports season is coming up, so we are providing UIL sports physicals as well, and they are FREE! Please tell parents and coaches!  

The medical team will be at the Terlingua High School on Monday, June 29 from 10 am - 6pm. They will do full physicals, diabetes, hypertension, sports physicals, Sonagrams, PT-OT evals and recommendations, and more. Everything is free. Open to everybody and all ages. You just need to come to the high school and sign up that day. 

We will be putting up fliers soon. 

Anna Marie Posey adds: “We will be providing food for lunch and supper for the group. I'm asking anyone in the community who would like to show their appreciation for the over 40 coming to help our and other communities. Anyone who is willing to donate food and/or donate their time to come help us in set up, prepping food, serving, cleaning up in the kitchen at the high school. I would certainly appreciate all the help. You can contact me at 432 231 3833 to let me know if you're wanting to volunteer in providing food or in helping us in the kitchen in preparing and having the food ready for them. Last year they actually stayed until eleven o'clock pm to see the last person. This year they will be starting early at 10 AM till 6 PM 

We'll be putting up fliers with more details, and we'll also provide more information in each Terlingua Moon up until the date they come. We look forward to hearing from the community. Let's show our love and appreciation in the way that Terlingua knows how. Thank you, and look forward to hearing from our community. Anna Marie Posey 432 231 3833 

 

NO WALL 79852  

Join our weekly family friendly Saturday protest at FM 170 and Hwy 118, 8:00 -10:00 AM or so.  Most tourists to the area are interested and supportive! 

 

ALL YOU NEED TO ATTEND AN AA MEETING IS A DESIRE TO QUIT.  If you have, or think you might have, a drinking problem, we meet at 6:30 pm on Thursday at the Big Bend Church, just north of the post office. 

 

TERLINGUA TRASH PICKUP  

Weekly trash pickup for residential and business. 

64 gallon can - $49.99 per month. 

96 gallon can - $59.99 per month.  

We do Junk Removal too! 

All the details and pricing on the website: www.terlinguatrash.com. 

Have a great day! -Jimmy (432) 201 -5638. 

 

TAQUERIA EL MILAGRO 

A Ghost Town favorite!   Serving authentic Mexican recipes from street tacos to steaks and huge side dishes. Great food, great setting.  BYOB. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 3 pm until 9 pm. 432 371-2060 for take out via our drive through window.  

 

ARE YOU READY TO CATCH THE NEXT RAINFALL? 

We can help - Call: TANKS A LOT TERLINGUA 

Water Catchment Tanks, Pumps, Filters and Installation 

Locally owned - located near the Terlingua Ranch Lodge. 

Call Mark or Michelle: 432-371-3096 (home/office) or 806-781-7814 (cell) 

 

BRAVO HEALTH CLINIC 

Bravo Health Terlingua remains OPEN and will continue serving the community during our normal business hours, Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. 

 

TIME TO CALL, NO WALL 
REMINDER:  

Please continue to call Governor Abbott (512) 463-1828 
Markwayne Mullin (202) 282-8000 extension 6 
Senator Cruz  (202) 224-3121 
Senator Cornyn (202) 224-3121 

The Texas 23rd District no longer has a Representative in the US House, so if you live outside this district, please help by calling your own Congressperson. 

 

No Big Bend Wall.org is an excellent source of information.  Follow us on Facebook at No Wall 79852 for current updates.  Things are changing quickly. 
 
Download Printable Flyers thanks to no-al-muro.com: 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ffgMnaK_nsqqOYLUUpPcHjdpwjqfyWLj 

No Wall. No Wire. No Way. 

 Your voice matters. Speak up for Texas parks, for wildlife, for our economic survival,  and for future generations.