Annual Meeting 2024
Badlands Conservation Alliance’s annual meeting will be held in Bismarck at the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library on Saturday, November 16th, 2024, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm CT. The event will celebrate BCA’s 25th anniversary. The annual meeting will feature speaker Michael Barthelemy, Director of Native American Studies at Nueta-Hidatsa-Sahnish College. Barthelemy will speak at 3:00 pm, followed by a question and answer session. This event is free and open to the public, and will include refreshments and door prizes.
Annual Meeting 2023 with Tweed Roosevelt
Saturday, October 7th, 2023, 2 pm to 4:30 pm.
Russell Reid Auditorium at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum.
Tweed Roosevelt will speak at 3 pm, followed by a Q&A moderated by former North Dakota Tourism Director Jim Fuglie, with a reception to follow.
Annual Meeting 2022 with Rick Watson
Church of the Cross
1004 E Highland Acres Rd
Bismarck, ND
The BCA Annual Meeting and Potluck will be held Oct. 8 in Bismarck, featuring ND Associate Poet Laureate Rick Watson. A native of Mott, Rick lives in Minot. He is a retired professor of communications and a well-known singer of songs and teller of tales of western North Dakota, and friend to Badlands Conservation Alliance. His poetry has appeared on the pages of Wild Badlands and he was recently a featured guest on "The Great American Folk Show."
More on Rick Watson at http://highplainscreole.com/
Annual Meeting 2021 with Clay Jenkinson
We are thrilled to announce that Clay Jenkinson, author of Language of Cottonwoods, will be speaking at our Annual Meeting on November 14. What could be more exciting than that?? Well, thanks to a generous donor who loves Clay's newest book and believes that his passion for protecting some of the last wild places in the Badlands and The Little Missouri River is contagious, the first 100 new or renewing members attending will receive a free copy of The Language of Cottonwoods. Clay will be available to sign books after his talk. (If you want a book and are attending virtually, we ask that you pay shipping of about $4.)
We'll have refreshments and Clay will stay after his talk to sign books.
We have three excellent board candidates who have so graciously agreed to serve BCA - Sarah Vogel, Tom Dickson, and Clay Jenkinson. You can read more about them here. Members will receive a ballot in the mail the week of October 20.
Here are the details of the Annual Meeting:
Where: Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library, Room A
515 N 5th Street, Bismarck
And via ZOOM
When: 3-5 PM Central Time
3 PM: Business Meeting
3:30 PM Clay Jenkinson
We are excited to be able to gather in person and to offer the option of attending virtually. (Look for a zoom link closer to the meeting.) So that we can gather safely, masks will be required for those attending in person.
Annual Meeting 2019
The 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Potluck will be held on October 13, 2019 at the Bismarck Aquatic Center.
2017 BCA Annual Meeting
Jay Clemens owns a good deal of private ranchland within the viewshed of the Elkhorn Ranch Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. He is committed to long term protection of his prime Badlands acreage, the Elkhorn Ranch, and in turn, the larger Little Missouri Scenic River valley. A member of the Badlands Conservation Alliance, Clemens will share the story that led him to vigilant defense of this uniquely rich and historic landscape.
Annual Meeting 2016
A special showing of Keeping All the Pieces, our new outreach video, will be presented by Mike McEnroe and Jan Swenson. Produced by Badlands Conservation Alliance and the North Dakota Wildlife Federation, Keeping All the Pieces is a dramatic look at the beauty of the Badlands and the impacts oil and gas development.