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Spectators watch as a Natural Resources Conservation Service simulator on
display of various samples of land in a water retention and runoff demonstration,
Volesky)
June 19, waters a
(Photo by Richard
By Richard Volesky cattle have to eat what's in front of The coalition works to improve the
Editor/Reporter them instead of walking the entire health and regeneration of grazing
GOLVA - Rainfall, dung beetles area looking for what they would land.
and slicing up a 160-acre pasture into want to eat first, such as alfalfa. The Miller pointed out that ranchers
16 pieces were among the topics of a fence is moved so that each smaller often use a spot of poor land or hard-
pasture management walk held on ~ area isn't grazed too short. The idea is pan as the site for their drums of min-
June 19. to extend the grazing season as long eral or salt blocks for the cattle. He
The walk was held on. the as possible by keeping the forage in suggested that ranchers should try
Spiegelberg quarter, which is land each smaller area as healthy as pos- using different sites each year be-
that Ferdinand and Adeline Spiegel- sible, said Donnie Feiring. cause the waste and urine left behind
berg donated to the Golden Valley Moving the fence and monitoring by cattle one year can encourage for-
Soil Conservation District in 2006. grass height requires time, but the age growth in an otherwise bare site.
Current renters are ranchers Donnie Feirings have not invested in haying Njos said that with managed in-
and Trish Feiring. equipment. They instead buy the hay tensive grazing, it can take about five
In the managed intensive grazing they need for winter. Their calves are years before a major effect is seen.
plan, the Feirings move an electric also bom in May, which means fewer Grass that's not grazed isn't
fence every few days so that their 50 problems with the weather, wasted, said Njos. "If your not feed-
cow-calf pairs are in a different "Yes, we don't wean out the ing the animal, you're feeding the
wedge-shaped portion of the 160 biggest calves, but it's been better for soil (with carbon)," he said.
acres for about the same amount of' our marriage and for our kids," said "The more grass you leave, the
time. At the center of the pasture is Donnie Feiring. The system has been more you are going to grow the next
are two, 2,250-gallon water tanks working out financially, he said. year," said Miller.
that are accessible to all the cattle re- There is no prescription for a spe- Trish Feiring said they have not
gardless of which part of the pasture cific day on which to turn cattle out been using chemical pour-ons to con-
they are grazing, onto a pasture because every grazing trol flies.
Before it was grazed, the 160 year is different, he said. Miller explained that the chemi-
acres was in the Conservation Re- Those attending the pasture walk cals don't distinguish what is killed;
serve Program for about 20 years, also heard from Chad Njos of Bow- insects of all types that come into
and before that, much of it was crop- man, and Ken Miller of Fort Rice, contact with it will die. The dung
land. who are mentors with the North Tactics
By dividing up the pasture, the Dakota Grazing Lands Coalition.
(Continued on Page 6)
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BISMARCK - North Dakota is the ample job opportunities that young look at race and ethnicity groups both
only state in the United States growing workers find appealing," Gov. Doug in growth patterns and aging. These es-
younger this decade, according to re- Burgum said. timate show North Dakota is becom-
cently released data from the U.S. Cen- The recent data from the Census ing more diverse. The number of
sus Bureau. Bureau shows that North Dakota is individuals identified as Black or
North Dakota's median age dropped younger than each of its neighboring African American in the report in-
from 37 in 2010 to 35.2 in 2018. states with Minnesota at 38.1, Montana creased by 211 percent from 2010 to
"This is very encouraging news, at 39.9 and South Dakota at 37.1 years 2018. The Hispanic population in-
reaffirming that our state has a healthy of age. creased 119 percent during the same
economy, high quality of life and The Census Bureau estimates also time period.
Final bridg
By News/Pioneer Staff Project is now available to the public.
The Federal Highway Administra- The FEIS was prepared to evalu-
tion (FHWA), the North Dakota De- ate the alternatives and potential im-
partment of Transportation pacts from the construction of a new
(NDDOT), and Billings County, as crossing over the Little Missouri
joint lead agencies, in cooperation River.
with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. The ROD identifies the FHWA's
Army Corps of Engineers, saythe selected alternative which is a bridge
Final Environmental Impact State- and is known as Alternative K, Op-
ment (FEIS)/Record of Decision for tion 1, in the plan.
the Little Missouri River Crossing Area locations at which the
plan available to public
FEIS/ROD is available are:
Billings County Courthouse,
Medora
- Dickinson Area Public Library,
Dickinson
- Golden Valley County Court-
house, Beach
- McKenzie County Public Li-
brary, Watford City
- NDDOT Dickinson District Of-
rice, Dickinson
Alexander museum to hold anniversary celebration
ALEXANDER - The 50th an-
niversary celebration for the Lewis
and Clark Trail Museum in Alexan-
der is set for Saturday, June 29, start-
ing at 4 p.m.
The event will be a testament to
the character, ambition, ingenuity and
perseverance of the pioneers and set-
tiers who followed exPlorers Lewis
and Clark and to President Thomas
Jefferson who sent them, according
to event organizers.
Lewis and Clark were sent west in
I804 by Jefferson to explore and map
!the great unknown West. They spent
214 days on two separate visits in
North Dakota. It was here they met
Sakakawea who traveled with them
and was instrumental in their success.
This expedition opened up the west
to the European explorers followed
by the homesteaders who began com-
ing to the region in the late 1800s and
early 1900s.
In 1967, a group of local commu-
nity members had a vision that
preservation of seemingly everyday
items would be an important window
to the past and worked to preserve the
heritage they shared. The McKenzie
County Historical Society organized
an Alexander chapter, which led to a
Special committee for the Lewis and
Clark Trail Museum. They were of-
fered and accepted the old Alexander
school built in 1914 for their pro-
I)osed museum. The museum opened
in June 1969, 165 years after Lewis
and Clark first passed though North
Dakota. Using displays that use each
classroom to feature a different aspect
of-history, the museum has one of the
largest inventories of historical arti-
facts in North Dakota.
i The anniversary program will
open with the Williston Drum and
~ugle Corps playing with Leslie
Bieber, superintendent of the Alexan-
der School, singing the national an-
them.
The keynote speaker for the event
is Clay Jenkinson, award winning
scholar, filmmaker, author, historian,
dramatist, and creator and star of
"The Jefferson Hour" podcast. Jenk-
inson has appeared in three Ken
Bums documentary films, including
the film "The Roosevelts: An Inti-
mate History." He has made four doc-
umentary films and written nine
books, including "The Character of
Meriwether Lewis." He has played a
dozen historical characters including
Lewis and Thomas Jefferson. "The
Jefferson Hour" has been running for
25 years.
Bob Petermann, cowboy poet and
singer, will also be performing. Hon-
ored guest will be Grace Link, former
Shown.is the entrance to the Lewis and Clark Trail Museum in
Alexander. (Courtesy Photo)
LJ
This is a replica of a classroom in the Lewis and Clark Trail
Museum, (Courtesy Photo)
first lady of North Dakota. She and represented at the museum, includ-
Gov. Art Link raised their five chil- ing a soda fountain and saddlery
dren on a farm south of Alexander. items. Over a dozen horse-drawn
In 2018, the museum completed items show the importance of horses
an extensive addition. The new space to homesteaders' agricultural prac-
permitted the museum to display tices as well as horse-drawn trans-
many items that needed to be relo- portation. Antique automobiles
cated. Some items complement ex- provide insight into the importance
isting displays, such as fire of the introduction of mechanized
apparatus, wagons, carriages,and a transportation to North Dakota's
threshing machine which has largest county. For the model train
a wooden structure. Other items help enthusiasts, the museums' model
round out the variety of businesses train will be running.
NDDOT receives federal waiver to fly drones over people
By News/Pioneer Staff
BISMARCK - The North Dakota
Department of Transportation
(NDDOT) says the agency has re-
ceived a four-year waiver from the
Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) to operate unmanned aircraft
systems (UAS) over people.
This is the first time a North
Dakota state agency has received a
waiver to routinely conduct UAS op-
erations over people using a drone -
,in this case a DJI Mavic 2 series
equipped with a ParaZero SafeAir
parachute recovery system. FAA ap-
proved the waiver as part of North
Dakota's UAS Integration Pilot Pro-
gram, which is designed to help FAA
create new regulations that will en-
able the safe and secure integration
of drones into the national airspace
systems.
The UAS Integration Pilot Pro-
gram technology will be used in
areas such as pipeline or infrastruc-
lure inspections, traffic crash recon-
struction, and emergency response
during a life-threatening event in
rural areas, such as finding a missing
person in the Badlands or on lakes
Shown is a Mavic series drone that the N.D. Department of
Transportation plans to begin using. (Courtesy Photo)
and rivers. "Through NDDOT's pilot program,
"The UAS Integration Pilot Pro- we are getting valuable data to cre-
gram, through a variety of demon- ate regulations, policy and guidance
strations, is paying dividends on the that ensures safety while enabling in-
investment to safely integrate UAS novation."
into the national airspace system," ParaZero was founded in 2014. It
FAA Acting Administrator Dan El- designs autonomous safety systems
well said in a prepared statement, for commercial drones.
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