We’ve lived in northeastern Montana and western North Dakota for most of the last 42 years, and we’ve visited the Badlands hundreds of times. Whenever we return we learn something new about the seemingly forbidding area. We’ve also witnessed the mushrooming of the oil and gas industry in the region along with hundreds of spills. We joined Badlands Conservation Alliance as a way to have a more impactful voice on the treatment of this land. With BCA’s guidance we’ve written letters to the North Dakota Industrial Commission commenting on the oil and gas development.
Read MoreBCA needs new, younger members. How do we reach out to them? This is my daily question as I strategize our work. We all need to stretch ourselves to grow BCA. We need donor development and funds to thoroughly compete and achieve our goals.
Read MoreShannon, a Minot native, has a lifetime love of the badlands and is motivated to forward the Badlands Conservation Alliance’s mission: A Voice for Wild North Dakota Places! He is an advocate for collaboration and is grounded in the belief that new members and donors to BCA will play a vital role in shaping North Dakota’s future that better balances resource development with conservation.
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