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Five wells proposed for Tracy Mountain field
By News/Pioneer Staff within SE ¼, Section 23, T138N, orgy resources include: honoring all
DICKINSON The Dakota R102W. The proposed access road, valid existing oil and gas leases;
Prairie Grasslands, Medora Ranger FSR 7623, would connect the pro- allow oil and gas leasing and devel-
District, is inviting comments on a posed well pad to East River Road opment; and allowing removal of
proposed project submitted by at a length of approximately 4,800 mineral materials, and as funding al-
Southwestern Products Corporation, feet. lows, identifying and implementing
containing five new oil well pad de- The proposed TMW 12-23 pad surface and minerals estate land ex-
velopments, housing one well each, would be located within NW ¼, Sec- changes that contribute to bighorn
within the Tracy Mountain Oil Field tion 23, T138N, R102W. The pro- sheep management objectives, ac-
in Billings County. posed access road FSR 742-59 cording to the Forest Service notice.
All of the wells would be on Na- would connect the proposed well Archaeological, botanical, and
tional Forest System lands, accord- pad to East River Road at a length of wildlife surveys are being completed
ing to a Forest Service notice, approximately 1,147 feet. for the project and will be reviewed
The proposed TMW 44-21 pad The five proposed well pads by Forest Service specialists.
would be located within the SE ¼, would be approximately 400 feet by Comments regarding the scope
Section 21, T138N, R102W. The 300 feet in size. The proposal in- and content of this proposed atcion
proposed access road, Forest Serv- cludes utilities, such as but not lim- are invited until March 11. Send
ice Road (FSR) 7457-2, would con- ited to, electric lines, fiber optic comments to: Shannon Boehm, Dis-
nect the proposed well pad to lines, and gas, oil, freshwater, and trict Ranger; Tracy Mountain Oili
existing the FSR 7457 at a length of saltwater pipelines, and any other and Gas Wells Project; Medora
Don't rely on pharmacies to catch drug interactions
Thinking About
Health
By Trudy Lieberman
Rural Health News
Service
News reporters about ongoing finan-
cial turmoil in the retail drug busi-
ness. Chains had begun to crowd out
independents, HMOs were cutting
their reimbursements, and pharma-
cists were under greater stress. A
spokesman for the American Phar-
maceutical Association said the pro-
fession was "looking at a
When you fill a prescription at
your local pharmacy, you assume the
medicine you receive is safe and
won't interact badly with other drugs
you're taking.
That's not an unreasonable as-
sumption, considering that pharma-
cists enjoy a positive reputation
among the public. A recent Gallup
poll found that pharmacists are
among the most trusted professionals
ranking second only to nurses.
But pharmacists' reputations as
patient guardians may be unwar-
ranted. The results of an investigation
published by the Chicago Tribune be-
fore Christmas showed that patients
may be in danger after all.
The paper sent reporters to more
than 200 pharmacies in the Chicago
You should still ask the pharmacist to
check your records to make sure a
new drug doesn't interact badly with
others you take. You can, of course,
ask your doctor. But even they may
not know - as I found out.
My doctor continued to prescribe
Cipro for traveler's diarrhea for years
even though it reduces the effective-
ness of another medication I've been
taking for decades. I learned about
this only recently at an urgent care
clinic where a doctor refused to pre-
scribe Cipro because of the possible
interaction.
Nor can you always rely on those
leaflets put in the bags the pharma-
cist gives you. The information you
get may he supplied by outside ven-
dors, says Larry Sasich, who is the
approximately 8,900 feet. equipment deemed necessary for the
The proposed TMW 22-27 pad drilling, stimulating, production, de-
would be within the NW ¼, Section velopment and sale of oil and gas mail: comments-northern-dakota-
27, T138N, R102W. The proposed products. Interim reclamation would prairie-medora@fs.fed.us.
well access road FSR 7457-3 and be performed on disturbed areas not The Forest Service anticipates
utilities would connect with the pro- needed for operations and mainte- completing an environmental as-
posed TMW 44-21 access road. nance. This entails contouring to sessment and a decision notice in
The proposed TMW 34-22 pad provide stable slopes, top soiling, spring of 2017.
would be within the SE ¼, Section and seeding with a Forest Service Electronic comments should con-
22, T138N, R102W. The proposed approved native seed mix. tain the name "Tracy Mountain Oil
access road, FSR 742-60, would The management areas for thisand Gas Wells Project."
connect the proposed well pad to project include bighorn sheep habi- Oral comments will also be con-
East River Road at a length of ap- tat and rangelands with diverse nat- sidered if provided at the above of-
proximately 2,298 feet. ural-appearing landscape. Standards rice during normal business hours
The TMW 33-23 pad would be and guidelines for minerals and en- during the comment period.
Ranger District; 99 23rd Ave., Suite a[ea, ranging from small neighbor-
B; Dickinson, ND 58601. E- hbod drug stores to those operated by
re-engineering of the whole profes- co-founder of Patient Drug News and
sion." co-authored the 2005 best selling
,l.arge national chains. Fifty-two per- Fast forward to now. Was there re- book, "Worst Pills, Best Pills" with
cent of the pharmacies they visited ally a re-engineering given what the Dr. Sidney Wolfe who headed Public
failed to warn patients that a pair of Tribune found in its investigation last Citizen's Health Research Group for
drugs, if taken together, could result year? Since findings from the two many years.
in serious potential harm, even studies are similar, I'm skeptical. A Sasich says the best information
death. The Tribune called its find- vice president of CVS pharmacy told about when a drug should not be used
ings "striking evidence of an indus- the Tribune, "There is a very high can be found on a drug's FDA-ap-
try-wide failure that places millions sense of urgency to pursue this issue proved professional product label on
of consumers at risk." and get to the root cause." My ques- the DailyMed website (https://daily-
No doubt the poor practices un- tion: Why wasn't there such urgency med.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/) spun-
covered in Chicago are common in 20 years ago? sored by the National Library of
other places. Twenty years earlier, in There still appears to be little pro- Medicine. At the end of each label is
1996, U.S. News & World Report tection for patients who have no idea the "Medication Guide" the FDA re-
published a lengthy study that found whether a particular combination of quires for some 200 drugs - many
as the Tribune did that pharmacists drugs they take will kill them. While heavily advertised. The agency re-
failed to warn their patients of dan- many pharmacies do have computer quires those labels if it believes in-
gerous interactions. Back then, the programs that alert them when a pa- formation is necessary to prevent
magazine sent reporters to pharma- tient is being prescribed drugs that serious adverse side effects and when
cies in seven cities and found that may interact badly, John Norton, di- patients need to know about any
"well over half failed to warn con- rector of public relations for the Na- known and serious side effects.
sumers when presented with pro- tional Community PharmacistsYou can also ask the pharmacist
scriptions for drugs, that, when taken Association, told me pharmacists for the professional product label. I
separately are safe but when taken to- sometimes fail to heed the warnings, asked mine for Cipro's label. He
They may be suffering from what handed me a tiny, tightly wrapped
gether can be risky at best and at he called "alert fatigue." In other
worst deadly."
What was striking to me was that words pharmacists get so many alerts packet, and said, "You're not sup-
posed to see this unless you ask."
in 20 years not much has changed in that they fail to comprehend them all, My advice: Ask!
the pharmacy business, and unaware and something slips through. As the (What problems have you or a
patients are still at risk. In 1996 a Tribune found, those slips are far too family member had with drug inter-
spokesperson for the American Phar- common, actions? Write to Trudy at
maceutical Association told U.S. Where does this leave patients? trudy.lieberman@gmail.com.)
Economic fear drives shepherds to Sanhedrin
"Speaking for the shepherds in
the Bethlehem area, we want some-
thing done about this Jesus person,"
Isaac, son of Methish, demanded of
the Sanhedrin, governing body of the
Jews, as shepherds crowded onto the
open courtyard. Fortunately, it was
an outdoor meeting.
"We certainly share your point of
view," Levitus, high priest of the
year, responded emphatically. He
didn't appreciate the scolding Jesus
had been giving Pharisees in public.
"But what is your complaint?"
"He's telling people that He is the
way, the only way," Isaac said. "That
means the old way of sacrificing on
the alter will no longer be necessary
and that'll be the end of our sheep in-
dustry."
"This means jobs and you know
how hard it is to find good paying
jobs these days," added Tish, son of
Megosh. "And we don't have unem-
ployment compensation or food
stamps. They're way down the road
and I don't think we can survive that
long."
"We bring a lot of people into
town," Isaac argued. "Thousands of
sinners come from all over the world
to sacrifice sheep at Passover and a
lot of sinners need a lot of sheep.
Passover is even better than Black
Friday."
"Yeh!" agreed Zoar, son of Sy-
chor. "They eat in town ... sleep in
town ... buy mementos ... it's great
for small business and the small
business people will all go down
N.D. Matters
By Lloyd Omdahl
with the shepherds if this Jesus has
his way."
"Moses really set us shepherds up
good," Tish explained. "The Ten
Commandments have been a boon
for the sin business. We don't be-
lieve in sin but there's nothing wrong
with us home town shepherds mak-
ing a few talents facilitating repen-
tance."
"Talk about job creation," added
Ishmi, son of Jabbock. "We hire a lot
of drivers to get all those sheep into
the market. Last year, I had 20 ser-
vants on my payroll."
',Yes, and it.was reported to us
that you were hiring illegal immi-
grants - Moabites, Hittites, Samari-
tans - as permanent undershepherds
and without green cards," one stem-
faced Pharisee glowered. (It was the
only face he had.)
"Well, we couldn't find qualified
drovers to fill the jobs," replied
Isaac. "Besides, these folks work
cheap. Immigrants are good for busi-
ness."
"Rules are rules," Levitus re-
sponded. "And you know we have
regulations against using these
aliens."
"That's another thing," Ishni as-
serted testily. "We're tired of rules
and regulations. Have you looked at
Leviticus lately? It looks like gov-
ernment overreach to me. We need
to cut back on those outdated regu-
lations. They're killing our bottom
line."
"If you just leave us to self-regu-
lation, business will boom," pre-
dicted Magog, son of Kish.
"Give a shepherd a cubit and he'll
steal your sheep," Levitus responded
skeptically.
"Don't forget that the sheep in-
dustry is half of our gross national
product," lectured Ishmi. "If that
gets wiped out, half of the country
will be on the dole and Caesar does-
n't provide safety nets."
"Well, you shepherds brought it
on yourselves," Levitus scolded.
"You came running into Bethlehem,
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Beeftalk
(Continued from Page 2)
ease of discussion, duced 478 large bales:After discus-
These maps are the foundation sion, these acres would be split for
for the discussion, followed by the grazing after Oct. 15, half to a 100-
actual implementation of the plan plus-day corn and half to a cover
for aparticularfield.Areview of the crop mix. A suggested blend of
history and current needs are put on seven crops for this year was dis-
the table for discussion, followed by cussed and will be finalized at the
a consensus as to how to proceed, next meeting.
Essentially, the question is, "What The next discussion turned to 474
does the center need from the field acres of cool-season pasture. This
to meet the desired objective of the pasture was re-seeded to a cover
center?" Let's tune in and re-visit crop blend, including buckwheat,
last week's discussion as we focused German millet, radish, sunflowers,
on the center's Boehm Research crested wheatgrass and tall wheat-
Farm at Richardton, N.D. The dis- grass, in 2016. The cool-season
cussion started with the 2016 crop- grass will be rested this year to
ping history and proposed 2017 land allow for the further development of
usage intentions. The obvious points the crested wheatgrass and tall
were resolved quickly: The native wheatgrass, pending any fall grazing
pasture would be utilized for graz- developments.
ing approximately 53 cow-calf pairs The next field was 124 acres
starting in early June and ending in seeded to German millet, piper su-
late October. dangrass, medium red clover and
Next was the allocation of a 98- common vetch as a cover crop blend
acre field for grazing by the 53 cow- in 2016. The field yielded 377 large
calf pairs after summer grazing. In round bales and will be seeded to a
2016, these acres were seeded to cover crop blend of Stockford bar-
German millet, piper sudangrass, ley, berseem clover, crimson clover,
medium red clover and common forage pea and sorghum sudan for
vetch as a cover crop blend and pro- hay. Harvest timing and hauling of
telling everybody that the angels told
you everybody was going to get for-
giveness with a new king."
"But there Jesus was in a manger
just as the angels said," explained
Ishmi defensively. "What could we
say?"
"It seems that you are not so
happy with your story anymore,"
Levitus concluded.
"Well, we thought peace on earth,
good will to all men sounded good at
the time but that was before we knew
jobs were at stake. We had to change
our story ... business is business,"
Magog lamented.
"Well, don't worry about this
Jesus business," reassured Levitus.
"It won't last."
He clapped his hands to conclude
the meeting.
the 2017 hay crop also were dis-
cussed, assuring that the various
equipment and labor will be avail-
able.
That is not all the fields, as two
remain, and we will finish the plan
in two weeks. Never underestimate
the value of discussion at the
kitchen table.
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