From May to July, 2025, the six-person BCC field crew provided approximately 1,800 hours of service. Working alongside 13 project partners, BCC maintained 40 miles of trails, removed 4.75 miles of fencing, installed or repaired 30 mile markers and other posts, placed eight benches, and reinforced two erosion-preventing bridges.
Read MoreMy first two years as your Executive Director have paid dividends through relationship building. This was evident in our BCC field crew and how well it has been received. My goal for the next 25 years, BCA will serve as both ‘watchdog,’ and a ‘boots on the ground solution’ to improve western ND for future generations.
Read MoreUSDA's public comment period ends on Tuesday, September 30th.
Read MoreThe Roadless Rule comment period will end on September 19. Let's stop this while we still can.
Read MoreNews from western North Dakota for June and July, 2025.
Read MoreThe Badlands Conservation Corps (BCC) is a collaboration with the Badlands Conservation Alliance (BCA) and Strengthen ND to bring AmeriCorps field crew members out to work on short-term service projects to improve public lands, the Three Affiliated Tribes National Park, as well as the grasslands of western North Dakota.
Read MoreBadlands Conservation Alliance’s 2024 annual meeting was held in Bismarck at the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library on Saturday, November 16th. The event celebrated BCA’s 25th anniversary and featured speaker Michael Barthelemy, Director of Native American Studies at Nueta-Hidatsa-Sahnish College.
Read MoreBen Rawlence, a British writer and journalist, has researched and compiled a fascinating look at the seven major trees in six ecosystems of the northernmost forest, the treeline forest.
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