Quoting the late US Senator John McCain, your BCA board of directors made a great effort over the past year to ‘return to regular order’ after the many disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic. We sincerely hope that cancelled annual meetings, cancelled outings, and virtual board meetings via Zoom call will become a thing of the past.
Read MoreUpdates on: Highway 85 through the Northern Badlands, the Little Missouri River crossing, the Davis Refinery, and the Section Line lawsuit.
Read MoreYour letters made a difference. Today we got word that Secretary Chao denied funding for Billings County's BUILD grant application.
Read MoreBillings County Commission wants to build a bridge that Commissioner Arthaud has bragged will carry 1,000 oil trucks PER DAY, spreading clouds of dust through the valley and in the river. Billings County has applied for a BUILD Grant from the US Department of Transportation for $12.3 Million to build this bridge across The Little Missouri, North Dakota’s only state scenic river.
Read MoreUpdates for March 2020 on the Davis Refinery, the Little Missouri Crossing, Bice Bridge, and Long X Bridge.
Read MoreBadlands Conservation Alliance, a 20-year-old North Dakota conservation organization that bills itself as “A Voice for North Dakota’s Wild Places,” has hired Dr. Elizabeth Loos as its new Executive Director. Dr. Loos replaces the group’s longtime director, Jan Swenson, who has retired.
Read MoreBadlands Conservation Alliance was born out of the belief that someone needs to make a difference in protecting these wild places.
Read MoreDepth of dark air between us/ we sense all things suspended/ How tenderly we glance at Earth in her black velvet/ Little strings of farmyard lights outside tiny prairie towns/ —glitter of lit roads appear to adorn her
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