Badlands Conservation Alliance is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the Badlands and rolling prairie ecosystem comprising western North Dakota’s public lands, both state and federal. We provide an independent voice for conservation-minded North Dakotans and others who appreciate this unique Great Plains landscape.
Read MoreIn 2024, BCA’s projects and collaborations included the Maah Daah Hey National Monument campaign, a legal intervention to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, advocating for Suitable for Wilderness areas during the public comment period for the Dakota Prairie Grasslands Travel Management Plan, and submitting comments to the Bureau of Land Management regarding oil and gas leases.
Read MoreBy closing superfluous roads and limiting unnecessary road construction, and prioritizing non-motorized recreation, we send a strong message that the Badlands and Little Missouri National Grasslands are open, accessible and enjoyable for future generations. BCA supports a Travel Management Plan that better strikes a balance between public access and the conservation of North Dakota’s unique western ND landscape.
Read MoreBadlands Conservation Alliance joins legal intervention to defend federal public lands conservation rule from ND, MT, ID lawsuit. Community, Tribal and environmental groups today filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit from the states of North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which creates a framework for the agency to manage 245 million acres for conservation. The coalition aims to defend the Bureau’s authority to adopt the long-awaited conservation rule from the states’ lawsuit.
Read MoreBCA teams up with Laughing Sun and Atypical to create limited beer releases that raise awareness about conservation in western North Dakota. A portion of sales will be donated to support BCA’s mission.
Read MoreWe’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.
Read MoreThe Badlands Conservation Alliance has begun to put together a White Paper on its concerns about the North Dakota outback, particularly the Badlands. We believe that the people of North Dakota (and beyond) are eager to know just what is at stake in the Little Missouri River Valley in the third decade of the twenty-first century. They want to know what sorts of development threaten one of the most storied and important places in America.
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