2018 BCA Annual Meeting

Saturday, October 13, 2018
4:00 PM 6:30 PM 16:00 18:30

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Saturday, October 13, 2018
4:00 PM – 6:30 PM CT

Join Badlands Conservation Alliance members and friends at our 2018 Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 13th at 4 PM CT / 3 PM MT. The meeting will be held at the new Community Room on the 2nd floor of the Hillside Park Aquatics Complex located at 1719 E Boulevard in Bismarck.

Our traditional potluck will kick off the gathering. It’s always a splendid time: good eats, good conversation, good fun.

We are excited to welcome the newly formed North Dakota Chapter of the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers as our speaker. ND BHA’s focus is on protection of public lands and BCA members will be delighted to learn just how much we have in common, and ways we may differ.

Take advantage of this year’s Annual Meeting. Exercise your BCA membership, hear about and contribute to BCA’s ongoing direction, and visit with other friends of the Badlands. It’s golden; don’t miss it!

RSVPs are requested for planning. Thanks! Contact the BCA office at 701-255-4958 or bcajan@bis.midco.net.

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Jun 29, 2017

A Great Time Had By All

BCA filled the Burning Coal Vein Campground at our Southern Badlands Outing on June 24 and 25, 2017. Badlands advocates spent the first half of Saturday touring existing oil development in the Tracy Mountain vicinity before investigating expanding activity in the Tyler Formation – including proposed wells along Dantz Creek and adjacent to Kendley Plateau Suitable for Wilderness.

Aug 18, 2016

Keeping All the Pieces: Learning from Each Other

Thanks to the diverse crowd that joined us in Bismarck at Keeping All the Pieces last evening. Your willingness to share your experiences and opinions in public dialogue encourages us all to continue the good work of public education on oil and gas impacts in the Badlands and advocacy for their protection.

Take heart; fight the good fight. Raise your own Voice for Wild North Dakota. Watch for opportunities to join the Keeping All the Pieces conversation in communities across the state.

Apr 11, 2016

"Interested Party" Hearing #1

Great turn-out at the first of four hearings. Thanks to all who came out - both testifiers and witnesses.

Bismarck Tribune: Public lashes out at proposed input restrictions

Fargo Forum: ‘Interested party’ definition draws fire at ND oil and gas rules hearing

Dec 1, 2015

Board Member Elections 2015

Three Board members were elected at the Annual BCA meeting. Both Lynn Morgenson and Rich Brauhn were elected for their second two-year term. However, a new member to the Board was elected for her first term: Ms. Laura Anhalt from Mandan.

Download the PDF of Wild Badlands #3 8.

BCA Accomplishments for 2015

Trying something new, BCA held our 2014 Annual Meeting in central ND to even out driving demands. It seemed to work - with our largest ever annual gathering held in the main room of Makoché Recording Studio in downtown Bismarck. Thanks to Mike and David for providing a delightful space complete with BCA visuals and to Lynn, Graham, Mike, Robert and David for the extra help with logistics. It was a cozy and exuberant crowd with no one throwing a better potluck than BCA.

Apr 1, 2015

My Spring Vacation

Giving credit where credit is due, my brother is probably the key to my Badlands bent. He is the one who taught his little sister the wonders of the great outdoors — from my propensity to note and investigate wee details to my exuberance for the derring-do. I was the timid one; he, the bold. He stretched me. Husband David and I took this now longtime Coloradan and BCA member to the northern Badlands over Easter weekend — with some reservation on both his part and ours. Larry hadn’t seen the Bakken Boom.

BCA Member Profile: Christine Hogan

Christine Hogan is the new BCA president-elect and took over the gavel at the January Board Retreat. Although a transplant from Colorado, she has always considered North Dakota her home and actually chose North Dakota! Her family moved to Minot Air Force Base to follow her father’s Air Force assignment in 1966. When her family moved again three years later, she was in college at NDSU and stayed behind to finish college eventually going on to UND where she completed a law degree.

Nov 30, 2014

BCA Accomplishments for 2014

BCA gathered for our 2013 Annual Meeting in the Community Room of the Dickinson Area Public Library the afternoon of Saturday, November 2. Following potluck lunch and a brief business meeting, group discussion focused on current issues including the proposed Basin Electric transmission line past the Killdeer Mountains, the “eye of the needle” and the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the Special Places policy as proposed by Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, the Dakota Prairie Grasslands Oil and Gas RFD analysis and Supplemental EIS, the proposed Little Missouri River bridge Draft EIS, and the proposed Theodore Roosevelt Expressway expansion as it would impact the Park.

Download the PDF of Wild Badlands #36.

BCA Member Profile: Craig Kilber

Growing up in Dickinson, North Dakota allowed me the opportunity to explore just about every butte and ravine in the Badlands. From hunting, hiking, mountain biking, and rock climbing - yes, it is possible to rock climb on Sentinel Butte - each part of the Badlands offered something different for me to enjoy. For five summers during college, I worked on the Maah Daah Hey trail crew for the US Forest Service. While on the trail crew, I was able to build new trail, maintain existing trail, construct campgrounds, and fight wild land forest fires. It also gave me an appreciation for the Badlands’ rugged environment and all that offers. Although I currently reside in Fargo where I am a Business Development Analyst for InterceptEFT, I spend as much time as I can in the Badlands.