Big Bend Administrative History

¹ Dennis A. Vasquez, Chief of Interpretation and Visitor Services, BIBE, "Working with Mexico: The Development and Status of the Mexican Affairs Program at Big Bend National Park," April 1994, BIBE Files, Office of Mexican Affairs (MEAF), NPS, Las Cruces, NM.

² "Final General Management Plan, Development Concept Plan, Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River, Texas," November 1981, Superintendent's Files, BIBE.

³ Ibid.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Andrew Kurie, Heath Canyon Ranch Inn, Texas, "Notes on Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River Designations," July 28,2000, Superintendents' Files, BIBE; interview with Jim Carrico, Study Butte, TX, January 16, 1997; interview with Dudley Harrison, Fort Davis, TX, June 7, 1997.

⁶ Telephone interview with Marty Ott, Salt Lake City Trails Office, NPS, August 25, 1997; Jim Carrico interview, January 16, 1997.

⁷ Vasquez, Working with Mexico; interview with Ramon Olivas, MEAF, NPS, Las Cruces, NM, December 18, 1996; interview with Bill Wendt, Midpines, CA, September 6, 1996.

⁸ Ramon Olivas interview, December 18, 1996; Vasquez, "Working with Mexico."

⁹ Vasquez, "Working with Mexico."

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Interview with Gloria Uribe, Ciudad Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, May 21, 1999.

¹² Interview with Dr. Alfonso LaFon, Maestro-Investigador, Departemento de Manejo de Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, Ciudad Chihuahua, Mexico, June 1, 1999.

¹³ "Big Bend/Boquillas and Maderas del Carmen International Peace Park Proposal," September 11, 1990, Superintendents' Files, BIBE; Daniel Lou Roth, "Mexican and American Policy Alternatives in the Big Bend Region — An Updated Study of the Proposed Mexican National Park in the Sierra del Carmen," unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Texas, Austin, 1992: 39-42.

¹⁴ Vasquez, "Work with Mexico."

¹⁵ Jose A. Cisneros and Valerie J. Naylor, "Uniting La Frontera: The Ongoing Efforts to Establish a Transboundary Park," Environment, Volume 41, Number 3 (April 1999): 13-18; Pablo Dominguez interview, May 31, 1999.

¹⁶ Cisneros and Naylor, "Uniting La Frontera, 714-20.

¹⁷ Ibid., 42-44; interview with Jose Cisneros, Santa Fe, NM, February 4, 2000.