This article appears in the July edition of Dakola Country magazine, which will be on the stands this week. I’m a camper. I started camping as a Boy Scout. My dad was scoutmaster for Troop 34 in Hettinger, North Dakota, and loved to take his Scouts to his favorite campsite, beside the Grand River just … Continue reading Camping 101, With Diversions
Month: June 2021
Thank You, Sierra Club
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Yep. This one, put up just west of Mandan, North Dakota, en route to the Bad Lands, is the work of North Dakota's Sierra Club organizer, Wayde Schafer. No more words needed.
DEQ To Meridian: You’ve Got 90 Days
At midnight tomorrow night, Meridian Energy Group’s Air Pollution Control Permit To Construct an oil refinery next to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, issued by the North Dakota Department of Health, will expire. Now don’t get too excited. This nightmare isn’t over. This has happened before. This is the second time the permit has expired. The … Continue reading DEQ To Meridian: You’ve Got 90 Days
It’s Going To Be A Long, Hot Summer In the Badlands
(Reprinted from Dakota Country magazine, June, 2021) Most years, the North Dakota Badlands, as I write this in early May, are changing color. As the ground warms, the winter’s snowmelt brings hints of green into the brown landscape of buffalo and crested wheat grass and little bluestem, and by the end of the month, as … Continue reading It’s Going To Be A Long, Hot Summer In the Badlands
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