Getting Your Arms Around 381 Years of History

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.

Guest ContributorSeptember 27, 2023Hiking Report, Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Hiking to New Horizons

BCA 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.

Issues Update

Updates on: Highway 85 through the Northern Badlands, the Little Missouri River crossing, the Davis Refinery, and the Section Line lawsuit.

Boicourt Overlook and Into the Bowl Outing

That, for me, is what makes it meaningful — the need for constant attention, to live in the present, and to avoid what the author Laurence Gonzales calls a "vacation state of mind."

Wild BadlandsBob CantorDecember 28, 2018Outings, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Boicourt

Needle’s Eye Hike

One of the greatest things about BCA hikes are the companions.

Wild BadlandsLaura AnhaltDecember 28, 2018Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Needle's Eye, Paddock Creek, Outings