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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 176984" data-attributes="member: 605">In the article Jim Fuglie writes:For several years Curly Haugland was the Chairman of the NDGOP National Committee. I can picture Haugland smiling at Fuglie not saying much. He knows Fuglie drives up a bunch of gas from Bismarck to and around the Badlands every month looking for a story why gas shouldn't be produced in the Badlands. More can be gleaned from Jim's Prairie Blog site concerning why the County Commissioners want to build on section lines. Fuglie writes:<a href="https://theprairieblog.areavoices.com/2017/06/28/a-victory-for-the-good-guys-and-the-bad-lands/" target="_blank">https://theprairieblog.areavoices.com/2017/06/28/a-victory-for-the-good-guys-and-the-bad-lands/</a>In a major victory for conservationists, and for the North Dakota Bad Lands they work hard to protect, U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland of Bismarck ruled this week that the state of North Dakota and four western North Dakota counties have no right to go in and build roads in areas of the Little Missouri National Grasslands which have been inventoried as “roadless areas” and identified as “suitable for wilderness designation.”The agenda for the county commissioners from the oil patch was different. They wanted to stop a movement by conservationists to get official wilderness designation for about 50,000 of those roadless areas, a proposal called Prairie Legacy Wilderness. If the lawsuit was successful they’d send their graders and scrapers in there and build some roads, and take care of those pesky conservationists and their wild ideas.Well thank you Jim. Things are a little more clear. It seems the elected County Commissioners and landowners in the Grasslands are trying to get ahead of a wilderness designation. I've talked about this before. Wildlife Society lobbyist Mike McEnroe, the Badlands Conservation Alliance had notables like Senator Connie Triplet from Grand Forks (Natural Resources Committee) touring the badlands burning up a bunch of gas looking for suitable wilderness designation areas to make them off limits to gas exploration. Trouble is, Senator Triplet lost her re-election bid to a young upstart Republican.</blockquote>

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