A proposal by the Trump administration to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border would adversely impact Big Bend National Park, according to the Greater Big Bend Coalition/Rebecca Latson

If the Trump administration moves ahead with plans to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, it would "completely ruin the experience" at Big Bend National Park in Texas, according to a former ranger.

The national park's boundary runs 118 miles along the border with Mexico. Building a wall along that stretch likely would jeopardize wildlife crossings and require a buffer cleared along the U.S. side of the wall to allow for maintenance and observation.

“It would completely ruin the experience of one of the most beautiful natural places left in this country,” Rick LoBello, a former Big Bend park ranger and director of conservation group the Greater Big Bend Coalition, told the Los Angeles Times last week in discussing the impact a border wall would have on the park.

In a similar story for the Dallas Morning News, Mr. Lobello said, “A big wall in Big Bend would basically destroy the wilderness quality Big Bend has protected.”

Of course, another impact of such a wall would be the likely demise, for now, of the proposal to create Big Bend Rio Bravo Binational Natural Area in the Big Bend area of Texas and northern Mexico being promoted by the coalition.