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.
Read MoreThis last March my wife asked me what I wanted to do for my 34th birthday. I said, “let’s go to the Bullion Butte in the Badlands.” I’ve been to Bullion Butte a number of times, but my wife that grew up in North Dakota, had never experienced the most remote part of the Badlands.
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Read MoreOn May 2, 2017 Covenant Consulting Group (CCG) released the Badlands Advisory Group’s Action Plan, the second phase of CCG’s effort to address impacts of oil and gas development in the Badlands. BCA helped breathe this undertaking into being. We have been associated with the effort since its inception. We still are.
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Read MoreMore than a basic science book on solar and lunar eclipses, as the sub-title indicates, Nordgren’s concise and well-written book discusses the science of solar and lunar eclipses and how over centuries mankind’s understanding of his place in the universe grew out of observations of and discoveries connected to eclipses.
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Read MoreThe Badlands Conservation Alliance Board Retreat was held at the Pheasant Haven Lodge of the Black Leg Ranch south of McKenzie, ND on April 8th and 9th, 2017.
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Read MoreThis is not a message of fear, but of hope. Consider this one encouraging truth—like everything else, this too shall pass. A new day is coming. Together we can summon the courage to stand up, face the new beginnings, and embrace them. New beginnings mean new opportunities for BCA members and friends to speak up, to share our resource-conservation ethic, and to try to make a difference.
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Read MoreWith a successful 2014 trial run under our belt for holding BCA’s Annual Meeting in central ND to equalize travel distances, we again held our 2015 Annual Meeting in Bismarck on Sunday, November 1 — this time at the Discovery Center inside the Dakota Zoo. It worked well.
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Read MoreThe Annual Fall Meeting of the BCA was held on October 23, 2016 at the Discovery Center of the Bismarck Dakota Zoo. Thirty-one (31) members attended including the following Board members: Christine Hogan (president), Rich Brauhn, Lillian Crook, Craig Kilber, Lynn Morgenson and Laura Anhalt, and Jan Swenson (executive director). After a potluck dinner and introductions, the business meeting was convened by President Hogan at 2:15 PM CST.
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Read MoreThanks 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.
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