This 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 MoreI am proud to be a member of BCA. I feel good about being a conservationist. I even admit, out loud, to being an environmentalist. I feel good about doing my part to try to make our community and state a better place for ourselves and our kids and our babies yet unborn.
But in the last few years—feeling outnumbered, outmaneuvered, and definitely outgunned—I have often hesitated to say anything about my deeply-held belief that we must preserve wilderness. I have been reluctant to speak my mind about the destruction of our wild places. Why the hesitation? I felt, well, alone.
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Read MoreThe Annual Fall meeting of the BCA was held on November 1, 2015 at the Discovery Center of the Bismarck Dakota Zoo. Forty members attended including the following Board members: Christine Hogan (president), Rich Brauhn, Lillian Crook, Craig Kilber, Lynn Morgenson, and Tama Smith. Also in attendance were Jan Swenson (executive director), Connie Triplett (past president), and Bonnie Palecek (grants person). After a pot-luck dinner and introductions, the business meeting was convened by President Hogan at 2:05 PM CST.
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