tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22942738861378983992024-02-18T22:04:38.214-06:00The Battle to Save Killdeer Mountain This location is part of the known Civil War era battlefield of the Dakota Conflict from 1864. General Sully and his troops fought Sitting Bull, Gall, and Chief Inkpaduta on July 28, 1864 at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain. At this time development of mineral resources and infrastructure within the battlefield area leave the future of the site in question. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294273886137898399.post-60550279980802146952014-09-16T01:26:00.000-05:002014-09-16T01:26:05.241-05:00Records of DecisionSo far I can find nothing regarding the Records of Decision in the Federal Register.<br /><br />Record of Decision for the USDA USFS can be found on this page as well as other associated documents.<br />
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Senator Hoeven has announced the Record of Decision for USDA RUS, but they apparently haven't yet shared it with the public. This is the link to all project associated documents on the RUS website.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294273886137898399.post-50078832031700418682014-09-16T00:28:00.002-05:002014-09-16T00:28:46.339-05:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">It seems appropriate to mark the day of the transmission line approval with two quotes from two significant figures in US history who had both been at the Killdeer Mountains.<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5712889.Sitting_Bull" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Sitting Bull</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/44567.Theodore_Roosevelt" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Theodore Roosevelt</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294273886137898399.post-83190710976190870632014-09-15T00:53:00.000-05:002014-09-16T01:01:43.225-05:00Record of Decision for Basin Transmission Line Follows Hoeven Effort to Bring Parties Together in March New Line Will Bring More Power to Western North Dakota Communities<div class="header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #636260; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed;">
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WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven today said the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) has signed the record of decision (ROD) enabling Basin Electric Power Cooperative to begin construction on multiple transmission lines in western North Dakota. The ROD was issued by RUS on Sept. 13.</div>
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The decision comes following a meeting Hoeven organized in March to bring together Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Rural Utility Service, Forest Service, Central Power Cooperative and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaders to help resolve transmission line routing disputes in order to bring more critical power online in western North Dakota. The meeting helped Basin Electric and RUS work through issues concerning the ROD.</div>
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This ROD, coupled with other permits previously issued, will bring more power online in western North Dakota by enabling Basin Electric Power Cooperative to begin construction on the Antelope Valley Station (AVS) to Judson transmission line as well as the AVS, Charlie Creek and Judson substations.</div>
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“This decision moves Basin’s transmission line project forward and helps our state’s ongoing work to create jobs, grow our economy and develop more energy for North Dakota and the nation,” Hoeven said. “Transmission line projects like this help to build necessary critical infrastructure.”</div>
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Hoeven is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.</div>
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Basin Electric Power Cooperative has received federal approval to construct a 200-mile power transmission line in western North Dakota.</div>
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The power line, which will start at the cooperative’s Antelope Valley Station and end in Tioga, recently went through the federal approval process and public comment periods for sections of the line on federal land. Basin Electric hopes to complete the transmission project by 2017.</div>
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service and the U.S. Forest Service have both signed records of decision. Approval is still needed from the Western Area Power Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers but construction can start in areas outside of the two remaining agencies’ jurisdiction.</div>
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The cooperative first announced the project in 2011 as to address increased demand in the region. In 2013, a group called the Killdeer Mountain Alliance raised concerns over the transmission line’s proximity to the historic Killdeer Mountain Battlefield.</div>
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Mary Miller, a spokeswoman for Basin Electric, said the group’s concerns were taken into account during the federal public comment period. The transmission line was approved before a two-year National Park Service study of five historic battlefields, including Killdeer Mountain, could be completed.</div>
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“The approval of this line is a significant step forward in serving the tremendous growth in the Williston Basin and beyond,” Paul Sukut, Basin Electric chief executive officer, said in a statement.</div>
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The portion of the line from Charlie Creek Substation west of Beulah to the Antelope Valley Station will be the first constructed, Miller said.</div>
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In addition to the 345-kilovolt transmission lines, two new substations and modifications to three existing substations are among other facilities included in the project, Miller said.</div>
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“Transmission line projects like this help to build necessary critical infrastructure,” Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said in a statement.</div>
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Basin Electric also announced other plans for expanding capacity in western North Dakota Monday. The cooperative predicts the need for an additional 1,800 megawatts of power generation capacity by 2035 and is expanding its natural gas fired power stations to meet it.</div>
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The Basin Electric board of directors approved a third phase for the Lonesome Creek Station west of Watford City and Pioneer Generation Station northwest of Williston. The two natural gas powered stations are used during peak hours of electricity use.</div>
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Lonesome Creek Station will be expanded to include three more 45-megawatt natural gas turbines. The stations first unit started operation on Dec. 1, 2013. Two other units are under construction and set for completion this year. The expansion will bring the station to six units total.</div>
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Pioneer Station’s expansion will add 112 megawatts of additional peaking capacity. Pioneer Station Unit 1 started operation in Sept. 2013, the second unit started Feb. 1 and Unit 3 started March 1. The third phase will bring total generation at the state to 247 megawatts.</div>
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Construction of the third phases are slated for late spring 2015 and should be completed by June 2016.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294273886137898399.post-63229669646316351592014-07-15T12:54:00.001-05:002014-07-15T12:54:51.212-05:00For Immediate Release: July 26 All-Day Family-Friendly Event in Dunn
Center Commemorates Killdeer Mountain History and Conflict of 1864
(Dunn Center, ND)<div class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><p class="s6" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont20">Dunn County Historical Society & Museum / 153 Museum Trail, Dunn Center, ND / PO Box 145, Killdeer, ND 58640</span></span><span class="s4"><span class="bumpedFont20">dunncountymuseum@ndsupernet.com</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont20"> / </span></span></span><a href="http://www.dunncountymuseum.org/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">www.dunncountymuseum.org</a></p></div><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20"><br></span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">Contact</span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">: Jennifer Strange </span></span><a href="tel:541-944-4131 /t _blank"><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">541-944-4131</span></span></a><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">/</span></span><a href="mailto:jlstrange@hotmail.com /t _blank"><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">jlstrange@hotmail.com</span></span></a></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s6" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s9" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">For Immediate</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15"> Release:</span></span><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15"> July 26 All-Day Family-Friendly Event</span></span><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15"> in Dunn Center</span></span></span></p><p class="s6" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Commemorates Killdeer Mountain History and Conflict of 1864</span></span><span class="s11"><span class="bumpedFont15"> </span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">(Dunn Center, ND) </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">–Learning activities for all ages, a panel </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">discussion </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">and a noon roast bison banquet will be featured at the Dunn County Historical Museum in Dunn Cen</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">ter on Saturday, July 26. </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">“150 Years Later: Commemorating</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> the Killdeer Mountain Conflict”</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> is sponsored by the Dunn County Historical Society & Museum. Co-sponsors are the State Historical Society of North Dakota and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All activities are open to the public and free of charge, with donations appreciated. </span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">The Killdeer Mountain Battle, which took place on July 28, 1864, was one of five Dakota Territory Civil War conflicts. </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">"On that date, General Alfred Sully led U.S. Army troops against a gathering of Teton, Yanktonai and Dakota Indians in retribution for earlier, unrelated battles that happened in other parts of the Northern Plains," </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">said program coordinator Jennifer Strange. </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">“The Killdeer Mountain conflict changed the course of the people and history of the region.”</span></span></span></p><p class="s13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">The </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">commemoration will focus on</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> education, equality, inclusion and mutual respect across cultures. </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">"Everyone will feel welcome,"</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> said Deb Lancaster, event co-planner and Dunn County Historical Society Oral Historian. </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">"Here’s something that happened right in our back yard and a lot of people don’t really know much about it."</span></span></span></p><p class="s13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">The conflict plays in important role in Dakotans' shared history, said </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Diane Rogness, Historic Sites Manager of the State Historical Socie</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">ty of North Dakota. </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">“For many, the c</span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">onflict seems a long time ago. </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">But for the Dakota or Sioux people, the story is still fresh. They have heard their grandparents speak of the battle and the soldiers."</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"></span></span></span></p><p class="s13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s6" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">July 26 </span></span><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Schedule</span></span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">—Dunn County Museum Grounds, </span></span><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">153 Museum Trail, </span></span><span class="s10" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Dunn Center</span></span></span></p><p class="s6" style="text-align: start; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">· </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">9am MDT (10 am CST) - Welcome and Continental Breakfast</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">· </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">10am MDT (11</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> am CST) - Flag-raising Ceremony</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">· </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">10:30 am MDT (11:30 am CST) - </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Panel: “The History and Spirit of Killdeer Mountain”</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">· </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Noon MDT (1 pm CST) - Roast Bison Banquet</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">· </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">1:30 pm MDT (2:30 pm CST) - Educational Fair</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">· </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">4:30 pm MDT (5:30 pm CST) - </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Flag-lowering Ceremony</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Panelists will discuss the Civil War-era battle and the broader history of the Killdeer Mountains from Native American, U.S. Military and settler perspectives. Panelists include Rogness, Fort Yates Tribal Historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard and Dean Pearson, board member of Prairie Trails Regional Museum. </span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">The Educational Fair </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">will include a KidZone</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> with Native American </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">games, crafts, and tipi setup; Tipi S</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">torytelling; a Civil War campsite; flintknapping demonstrations;</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> a Dunn County Writers workshop</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">/open mic; narrative sketching lessons for all ages and a Veterans’ table.</span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Nathan Good Iron and two other </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Standing Rock Sioux Veterans </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">will raise and lower the </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">flag</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">,</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">oversee</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> the Vetera</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">ns T</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">able</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> and join in </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">the Tipi S</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">torytelling</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">. </span></span><span class="s14"><span class="bumpedFont20">Good Iron</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> is a member of the state’s only</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> four-generation family of military veterans</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">. His story has appeared in </span></span><span class="s8" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont20">The Washington Post</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> and other publications</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">.</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> </span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">Event Supporters: Hinrich’s SuperValu, Ardent Services LLC, Quality Mat Company, United Tribes Technical College, SM Fencing & Energy Services, Inc., </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">North Dakota Humanities Council</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">, North Dakota Humanities Council. Friends of the Event: Sample Auto Sales, First International Bank & Trust, Dakota Community Bank</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">, EconoFoods</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">. Thanks also to Wrenches R Us Truck Repair, Southwest Business Machines, Nana Lil’s, Larry Pavlenko & Sons, Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Baker Boy, Knife River Indian</span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20"> Villages, Jerry Banks, </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">City of Dunn Center. </span></span></span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">For </span></span><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">a full schedule of the free public event:</span></span><a href="http://www.dunncountymuseum.org \t _blank"><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">www.dunncountymuseum.org</span></span></a><span class="s12"><span class="bumpedFont20">.</span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294273886137898399.post-61387345076563429492014-06-18T18:35:00.003-05:002014-06-18T21:23:09.457-05:00Section 106 Consultation Meeting TranscriptUNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE<br />
RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE<br />
AVS-NESET 345 kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT<br />
Section 106<br />
TRANSCRIPT OF CONSULTATION MEETING<br />
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"There are only 383 of these battlefields that the Park Service has mapped to this extent, and that's out of a universe of over 15,000 engagements of the Civil War. So you might consider it the top maybe 3 percent of the nation."<br />
"... I hope, currently available to everybody, is our most conservative map of what we feel the entire extent of the battlefield is, which is the study area; where the bloodiest conflict was in the core areas, but there's conflict in the entire study area. It's just where the core is is considered the heaviest conflict, and it gives our preservation partners someplace to begin where they're thinking about buying or preserving land with easements or purchases. So it's a priority one of the high priority, if you will."<br />
"Those maps that were drafted nationwide were sent out to partners who asked to be part of the process, but especially out to all the SHPOs in the nation. They all had an opportunity to look over these maps and help us refine them to the best of their abilities. If they had other partners they could recommend to help us get those maps down as accurately as possible, they would recommend it. And we spent some years, actually, working together to try and get the info out as accurately as possible."<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2294273886137898399.post-57520409702622791782014-06-18T18:32:00.001-05:002014-06-18T18:32:28.325-05:00EIS-0478: FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT<div id="top-wrapper" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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KILLDEER, N.D. — The Dunn County Commission said it can't support a study of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield in its present wide-angled scope, but left the door open for one on a smaller scale.</div>
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The study under the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program sets out a 17,000-acre area to be investigated for how and where the Civil War-era battle occurred. The study is being conducted now and over the next 18 months by the North Dakota State University Center for Heritage Renewal.</div>
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Dunn County Commissioner Daryl Dukart said he made the motion Wednesday to get the county in front of any potential impact to its ability to develop roads or do other public work in the study area.</div>
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Center Director Tom Isern said the county's alarm is "quite unwarranted." He said the study will only provide a detailed scholarly accounting of "what happened and where. That's it."</div>
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He said the Killdeer Mountain engagement of Plains Indians and the U.S. Army in 1864 was the largest military engagement on the Northern Plains. The National Park Service protection program has listed it as the era's most at-risk battlefield, mainly because of encroaching oil development.</div>
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The study is already funded and underway, and Isern said the county's support or lack of it is not necessary to its success.</div>
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Dukart said the county's action didn’t close the door to future considerations. "Tom (Isern's) got a right to defend what he's done … but don't try to propose 17,000 acres. I'm not against a very much smaller version of this," he said.</div>
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Isern said the battlefield study has become entangled with Basin Electric Power Cooperative's plans to build a new 345-kilovolt transmission line through the battlefield study area.</div>
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The planned line from Basin's Antelope Valley Station near Beulah to the oil patch region is under environmental review by the federal Rural Utilities Service and the state Public Service Commission.</div>
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Isern said Killdeer Mountain landowners who oppose the study already have been paid for transmission line easements.</div>
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Basin has said it is out its easement investment if the route through the battlefield is rejected.</div>
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MANNING, N.D. – The Dunn County Commission does not support North Dakota State University’s Killdeer Mountain battlefield study as presented.<div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; line-height: 17px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 3px 0px;">
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MANNING, N.D. – The Dunn County Commission does not support North Dakota State University’s Killdeer Mountain battlefield study as presented.</div>
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Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to reject the document, which outlines the significance of a battle between Native American tribes and a troop of U.S. Cavalry in 1868. The study came out in August, days before Basin Electric Power Cooperative was set to have a Public Service Commission hearing in Killdeer on a transmission line. The proposed project, which would carry electricity from Basin’s Antelope Valley Station near Beulah to parts of western North Dakota, would pass through the study area for the battlefield.</div>
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The study characterizes the battlefield as the most significant historic site in the state.</div>
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Craig Dvirnak, a landowner whose property surrounds the existing state historic battlefield site, visited the commission to update it on his fight against the study and the possible historical designation that could come out of it.</div>
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Dvirnak said every nearby landowner he’s talked to is also against the study. He also alleged that NDSU professor Tom Isern, who applied for a National Park Service grant to fund the study, which could place some of the land on the National Register of Historic Places, didn’t correctly fill out the application he used to get federal funding in August.</div>
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But Isern said in an interview that Dvirnak simply misunderstands what was required by the application, and misunderstands the extent of the study area.</div>
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“I’m afraid the Dvirnak brothers have been intentionally misrepresenting this study,” Isern said. “My interpretation is we followed the guidelines of the National Park Service’s program, and that’s why they funded the proposal.”</div>
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But Dvirnak said the grant application was supposed to include the names of all landowners in the project area and did not.</div>
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“I was born and raised here. I know everybody that is in this project area,” he said. “When I show this grant application to other neighbors or other landowners in this project area, they’re looking at this and they’re saying the same thing: ‘What is it with this guy?’ ”</div>
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While Dvirnak said there was no transparency about the study, Isern said the study was well-known long before now. The professor tried to reach out to Dvirnak but the landowner was verbally abusive, he said, so he stopped trying.</div>
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Isern also said that because the study’s purpose is to determine the exact boundaries of the battlefield, not all landowners would be listed in the application.</div>
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Dvirnak said he wants to shut down the study.</div>
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He told commissioners he has reached out to the FBI office in Bismarck. He said an FBI representative told him there’s a chance for legal action if the grant included fraudulent information, such as the wrong landowner names.</div>
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FBI regional spokesman Kyle Loven said he can’t confirm or deny whether an investigation is taking place. Dvirnak didn’t want to expand on the FBI’s involvement because it’s ongoing, he said.</div>
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Like many North Dakotans, we too would like to know who knew what and when about the extent and importance of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield as this information relates to Basin Electric’s proposed Antelope Valley-to- Neset transmission line.<div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; line-height: 17px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 3px 0px;">
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Like many North Dakotans, we too would like to know who knew what and when about the extent and importance of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield as this information relates to Basin Electric’s proposed Antelope Valley-to- Neset transmission line.<br />
We are concerned, however, that the current debate will distract from a more urgent concern – the legal requirements related to any project that requires government approval and desires federal subsidies. The proposed transmission line is such a project.<br />
The laws in question are the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Historic Preservation Act.<br />
The essence of these laws is that when our nation’s important historical, cultural, or ecological values are impacted by a development project, several alternatives must be developed and proposed, so that concerned government agencies can weigh benefits and costs of each alternative. The purpose of both laws is to ensure a final decision that is truly in the public interest, as opposed to only in the interest of the contractual parties.<br />
The contractual parties in this case are the directly affected landowners and Basin Electric. Basin has bet on state and federal government approval of its plan and apparently already paid the landowners enough to cause most of them to accept the proposed transmission line route. This is not adequate reason for the plan to be approved, however.<br />
Basin must develop and propose at least one alternative route that avoids these impacts, in order to better inform those who are charged by law to make decisions in the public interest. Without one or more such alternatives, it will be a long struggle to get this line constructed.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">A few weeks ago I wrote here that I regarded the Special Places initiative as perhaps the most important moment of North Dakota history in my lifetime. This last week the North Dakota Industrial Commission voted unanimously to “approve” Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s proposal—but so stripped of its original intent as to be essentially pointless and meaningless. The original proposal (December 2013) would have designated a number of Special Places in western North Dakota and required oil companies to tiptoe around them as they extracted carbon from under both public and private land in their immediate vicinity. In its second generation (February 2014) the Initiative went from a proposed rule to a proposed process, thus seriously reducing its capacity to really protect anything. And now it has been stripped, at the Governor’s insistence, of any application to private land and private minerals.</span></div>
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I am by nature an optimist. But for the moment I am really deeply saddened to see the Industrial Commission throw its immense weight (as usual) behind the dynamics of wholesale development—drill, baby, drill—rather than take measured risks on behalf of the commonwealth values of North Dakota. The Industrial Commission has a constitutionally-mandated responsibility to create broad policy protocols for economic activity in North Dakota. In other words, the state government of North Dakota has the right and responsibility to set the terms of industrial engagement as we strip our countryside of its immense oil shale reserves. If Gov. Dalrymple and Ag Commissioner Doug Goehring had voted to adopt Attorney General Stenehjem’s proposal as he originally presented it, the oil industry and “landowner groups” would have howled, but they would have soon found a way to work with the new protocols, which would have affected only a tiny fraction of the oil properties in North Dakota. Even in its original form, the Initiative would not have prevented a single barrel of oil from being extracted from beneath our soil.</div>
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So what’s left after last week’s vote? A list of special places—still a very good thing, in my opinion, because the State of North Dakota has now gone on record as believing that there really are some extraordinary places worthy of special care. James Madison resisted the Bill of Rights at first (1787) because he thought it would be a mere “parchment guarantee.” He was wrong. The Bill of Rights has become a fundamental baseline American text around which we the people can rally when our natural rights are jeopardized. Think of the power of “invoking the fifth,” or demanding respect for “my first amendment rights” (or second). The Special Places List of 2014 gives the people who love the landscape of western North Dakota official permission to rally around more than a dozen extraordinarily beautiful and fragile places that need and deserve advocates.</div>
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The effective collapse of the Special Places initiative points to a deep problem of North Dakota life. If the Special Places were Mount Rushmore, the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone Falls, Monument Valley, Devils Tower, Half Dome, Mount Rainier, or Lake Tahoe, I believe even a pro-development Industrial Commission would find ways to protect their sanctity by setting special conditions for industrial activity on adjacent private properties. If our Special Places were as obviously spectacular as the ones listed above, the people of North Dakota (and throughout the United States) would be their champions and clamor for their protection. The simple truth is that most North Dakotans have never seen the Killdeer Mountains or Pretty Butte or even Little Missouri State Park. Most North Dakotans live well east of Bismarck (the 100th Meridian), and the closer you get to the Red River Valley, where the bulk of our population lives, the more North Dakotans lean into Minnesota. They look east not west. Their idea of a special place is Detroit Lakes.</div>
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North Dakota’s Special Places are not sublime in the Grand Teton sense of the term. Probably only a few dozen North Dakotans have been to all 18 of them. Most North Dakotans will acknowledge that the Badlands are pretty, but when they say “Badlands,” most North Dakotans are referencing what you see from the Painted Canyon overlook off Interstate 94, what you see from the Burning Hills Amphitheater, or (a couple of times in a lifetime) along the loop road in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Most North Dakotans have never been to Bullion Butte and only a few thousand have every climbed it. White Butte, the highest point in North Dakota, at 3,506 feet, is hard to pinpoint as you hurtle along US 85 between Belfield and Bowman. It’s not even as impressive as its more traditional cousin Black Butte (on the other side of the highway), and it generally gets talked about by way of a flatlander’s smirk.</div>
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We North Dakotans undervalue the beauty of our landscapes, including our public lands. We compare our landscapes unfavorably with those of Colorado, Utah, and Montana, or the woods and lake country of Minnesota. For most of North Dakota’s policy makers, by which I mean the Industrial Commissioners, the state’s regulatory bureaucrats, and most members of the state legislature, the lands in question are something of an abstraction. The attitude of most North Dakotans is that there is not much special here, that the country west of the Missouri River is a vast and largely bleak empty quarter that should be damned grateful that it now finally has found a way to attract economic development. Matthew 6:1: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”</div>
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I sincerely wonder how many of the Special Places our three Industrial Commissioners have visited. I don’t mean by flying over them in a plane or helicopter or driving past them en route to somewhere else in suit and tie. I mean get out of the car and spend some time in hiking boots. I know that Wayne Stenehjem ventured quietly to Bullion Butte when it became an issue before the Industrial Commission a year or so ago. That seems to me to be exemplary leadership. I wish the three commissioners would take a weeklong Special Places vacation, with no media and no neckties, camp out on the ground (no RVs) at Pretty Butte north of Marmarth, and climb White Butte on a hot July afternoon, to watch the thunderheads gather and rumble in from the west. I’d want them to have a picnic of baguettes and cheese within the perimeter of Theodore Roosevelt’s cabin site at the Elkhorn Ranch. Month after month the Industrial Commission sits in judgment of the future of North Dakota and yet they have been making profound decisions about places they know mostly from maps.</div>
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I hope everyone who is reading these words will go visit the Special Places between Easter and first snowfall. If you contact me (see below) I will give you tips about how to sequence your visit, and which ones you can legally climb. We need to build a broad protective constituency for the subtle magnificence of western North Dakota. Until you have been to the Elkhorn Ranch (no climbing required), you cannot, in my opinion, quite realize how much is at stake as we frack North Dakota.</div>
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(Clay Jenkinson is the Theodore Roosevelt Center scholar at Dickinson State University, as well as Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities at Bismarck State College and director of the Dakota Institute. Clay can be reached at Jeffysage@aol.com or through his website, Jeffersonhour.org.)</div>
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BISMARCK — The Forum News Service story, “Professor claims historic value of power line path purposely ignored,” contains bold assertions by Tom Isern, historian-director of the Center for Cultural Heritage Renewal at North Dakota State University (Page C6, Feb. 9).</div>
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The story refers to Basin Electric’s proposed Antelope Valley Station-Neset transmission line, which would extend west from the Antelope Valley Station near Beulah, N.D., to Tioga, N.D.</div>
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The 278-mile line will address the significant demand for electricity in northwest North Dakota and improve reliability of the existing system, ultimately strengthening the infrastructure throughout the region.</div>
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Basin is a not-for-profit wholesale generation and transmission cooperative, which serves member cooperatives in the region. Those co-ops are on the front lines, working around the clock to serve this tremendous growth. As their power supplier, we have an obligation to serve our members, who in turn serve their consumers, whether they are residential, commercial or industrial.</div>
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At issue is the location of the line, which crosses an area that NDSU received a grant from the National Park Service to evaluate as a potential historical site in which a battle between the U.S. military and the Plains Indians took place in 1864.</div>
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While Basin was not made aware of this study until late August 2013, two years after work to site the line commenced, Kimball Banks of Metcalf Archaeological Consultants said a 2010 National Park Service report highlighting the battlefield’s importance and eligibility for preservation obligates him to conclude that the site already meets the criteria for preservation.</div>
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Banks’ responsibility was to identify areas within the line route that met criteria for being classified as avoidance or exclusion areas, including areas of cultural protection. With undefined and subjective boundaries, the proposed, expanded battlefield area did not, and still does not, meet requirements of Class 1 protection status.</div>
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Significant work, consideration and evaluation went into route selection. One of our first steps was to gather existing information from federal and state agencies. The search covered cultural, biological, socio-economics, land use information and other issues. Agencies responsible for managing their respective area of jurisdiction were contacted to identify areas of concern or special requirements a project may have to evaluate.</div>
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Additionally, Basin worked with 512 landowners resulting in more than 10,000 landowner contracts to determine support and input for the line location. We have a long history of solid relationships with our landowners and have great support for this project.</div>
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Throughout this time, Basin maintained close contact with members of the public and state, county and federal agencies, including the National Park Service. There were scoping meetings for agencies and members of the public and also a draft Environmental Impact Statement was issued and underwent a comment period and hearing.</div>
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At no time during these processes did any member of the public, state or federal agency bring up the battlefield study, much less request the area be avoided.</div>
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But since Basin became aware of this study area in August 2013, we have taken steps to preserve the history of the area, agreeing to the Historical Society of North Dakota’s request to move a proposed substation and committing to additional survey work to ensure no battlefield-related resources are directly impacted.</div>
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The story highlights a $1.3 million pledge from Touchstone Energy Cooperatives announced in 2008. Partnering in this donation is Basin Electric, the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives and some member-cooperatives.</div>
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One of the cooperative core principles is “Commitment to Community,” and we take seriously our support of community efforts to preserve history and help those in need. Our donation to the Heritage Center is one of many contributions we make in North Dakota and other states.</div>
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Isern’s assertion that the donation “might have muzzled the State Historical Society of North Dakota” indicates his lack of understanding of electric cooperatives, our values and integrity. Furthermore, it directly discredits the mission of the Historical Society with his absurd allegations that they can be bought off.</div>
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Basin Electric recognizes this situation respects all opinions and is working with regulating agencies to mitigate impacts, but we also need to meet our obligation to deliver power to our member-owners. While there is no doubt the landscape in northwest North Dakota has changed, our responsibility lies in serving our members with electricity, which is a lifeline. No one wins if the lights go out.</div>
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In recent news reports, North Dakota State University professor Tom Isern stated, in so many words, that the State Historical Preservation Office has not gone the extra mile and taken the lead in protecting and preserving the 17,340 acres in his proposed study of the Killdeer Mountain battlefield area.</div>
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More than 16,000 of those acres are privately owned. We commend Fern Swenson, North Dakota’s deputy historic preservation director, for her comments acknowledging that protecting and preserving privately owned and held land is not within the mission or the jurisdiction of the State Historical Preservation Office. For the office to step outside of that would be both negligent and remiss on its part. The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the one-acre Killdeer Battlefield State Historic Site and that is all it is obligated to protect and preserve.</div>
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Furthermore, the proposed power line route does not even cross the Battlefield State Historic Site — the site is three-quarters of a mile north of the proposed route.</div>
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Isern stated publicly that “shoddy” and incomplete work has been done deliberately. However, following our thorough review of Isern’s grant application to the National Park Service to study the Killdeer Battlefield, it was very apparent that Isern’s claims of “shoddy” and incomplete work most accurately describe the quality of his own grant application.</div>
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The stated objective of his grant request is to “begin the National Register nomination process,” a designation that requires landowner acceptance and approval. Our examination of Isern’s grant application reveals:</div>
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-- The grant process requires public meetings to inform landowners and the public of the study, but to date no informational meetings have occurred. Landowners owning 95 percent of the proposed study area are entitled to information on it and what restrictions the federal designation on the National Register of Historic Places would place on landowners’ use of their private property.</div>
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-- The application does not list all the private landowners in the proposed study area, contrary to the National Park Service’s grant requirement to list all landowners “in the project area whose property is involved in the project.” In fact, our names, along with 24 others, are not even listed.</div>
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-- The Park Service grant application states: “Also attach letters from each land owner (emphasis added) whose property requires access for this grant giving the applicant permission to undertake work on their property.” Isern’s application contains only one letter of support, from the Killdeer Mountain Alliance, representing two landowners who own 260 acres of the proposed 17,340-acre study area.</div>
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-- Isern states in his grant application that participation of the Killdeer Mountain Alliance as well as the presence of state land “will provide sufficient access to complete the goals of this project.” The state of North Dakota owns 991.5 acres in the proposed study area. Taken together with the 260 acres listed above, Isern is claiming that a combined total of 1,252 acres — a mere 7.2 percent of the total proposed study area — is “sufficient access” to complete the study. In contrast, Basin Electric contacted all landowners at the very beginning of its process (for obtaining right of way for a transmission line).</div>
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It is important that the public is aware that Isern deliberately chose to seek his funding first without ever consulting those people whose private property he wished to involve in the proposed study. In a conversation with Isern, he stated that he “doesn’t feel there is a need to bring the landowners on board until the second year of the study, when he would have need of our property.” Based upon what we have observed, experienced and read throughout this entire debacle, it is our belief that there is unquestionable deception by Isern, The Center for Heritage Renewal and The Killdeer Mountain Alliance.</div>
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Because Isern is a member of the North Dakota State University faculty, the citizens and taxpayers of North Dakota should be asking why such behavior is allowed to continue under the umbrella of the university system. It seems fitting that a response from Dean Bresciani, president of NDSU, or Larry Skogen, chancellor of the North Dakota University System, is in order. Remember, gentlemen, the landowners of North Dakota will judge you by your actions — and the company you keep.</div>
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Since 1929, and long before any studies were proposed, the Dvirnak family has worked diligently to protect our land and the site of the Battle of the Killdeer Mountains. This has been our choice — one we have been proud and privileged to undertake and one that we intend to continue on our privately-owned land.</div>
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North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring, right, speaks in favor of preserving an individual landowner's private property rights during a meeting of the state Industrial Commission to discuss development in areas designated extraordinary places. Also shown are Governor Jack Dalrymple, center, and Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, left. All three make up the the Industrial Commission.</div>
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A proposal to protect places deemed special or extraordinary from energy development was changed to exclude private land before it was unanimously approved Monday by the North Dakota Industrial Commission.</div>
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The approval follows a monthlong public comment period that resulted in more than 500 comments. Gov. Jack Dalrymple proposed an amendment at the beginning of Monday's hearing that removed references to private land.</div>
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Dalrymple said the policy is “the right thing to do,” but “when it comes to private property … I don’t think we should include that at this time.”</div>
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The governor said he also agreed with lawmakers who questioned the Industrial Commission’s authority to set policy on private landowners’ rights. He said the issue should be revisited at the end of the year and the Legislature should become involved in the conversation next year during its session.</div>
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Supporters of the policy in its unamended form said what passed Monday lacked teeth. Approximately half of the more than 1.2 million acres of land affected by the policy is private land and is interlaced with public lands in some areas.</div>
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“It’s a checkerboard throughout the Badlands,” said Valerie Naylor, superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. “It’s very important that we include all of those places.”</div>
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The Department of Mineral Resources plans to create an updated map showing where the public land affected by the policy is located.</div>
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The policy includes a list of 18 places recognized for special protection for reasons including historical and cultural value. Among them are Lake Sakakawea, Elkhorn Ranch and the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield State Historical Site.</div>
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The policy calls for buffer zones from one-half mile to a maximum of two miles and would require an extensive mitigation plan by producers looking to drill in those areas.</div>
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It also calls for a person designated to gather comment and validate concerns raised on proposals to drill in sensitive areas and report back to the Industrial Commission and the Department of Mineral Resources.</div>
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The primary argument made by policy opponents had been that it would infringe on private property owners’ rights to develop their land.</div>
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Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said he had grave concerns over private property rights ever since Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem unveiled the proposal in December.</div>
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Before Dalrymple’s amendment, Gehring said, he had been prepared to come into the meeting and propose striking a large portion of the policy’s language relating to public comment, to preserve private property rights. He said Dalrymple’s amendment was a reasonable compromise.</div>
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“I can live with this. It’s workable and we can avoid any unintended consequences,” Goehring said.</div>
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Wayde Schafer, a spokesman for the Sierra Club of North Dakota, was disappointed in Monday’s vote.</div>
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“I think we just witnessed a lack of leadership on the governor’s part,” Schafer said.</div>
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Schafer said a narrow window exists to preserve North Dakota’s most pristine landscapes and Monday’s decision was a missed opportunity.</div>
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North Dakota Petroleum Council President Ron Ness called the decision “a prudent step to take” that preserved private property rights.</div>
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Ness pointed to the comments submitted by officials in western North Dakota counties citing concerns about private landowner rights. He said the Industrial Commission also made the right decision in not deciding policy on private lands and leaving it open to potential legislative discussion.</div>
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“Anything could come up during the session,” Ness said.</div>
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Last year, Last Real Indian’s contributing writer Dakota Good House wrote about the efforts to protect Killdeer Mountain, a sacred site, in North Dakota <a href="http://lastrealindians.com/sacred-site-in-north-dakota-at-risk-by-dakota-good-house/" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #f00d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://lastrealindians.com/sacred-site-in-north-dakota-at-risk-by-dakota-good-house/</a></div>
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Killdeer Mountain, considered a sacred site to various tribes in the Northern Plains is under threat from North Dakota’s expanding fracking operations and a recent proposal to place power lines through the heart of the Killdeer Mountain.</div>
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On February 25, 2014, the North Dakota Industrial Commission will consider adoption of the “Extraordinary Places” policy<a href="http://www.nd.gov/ndic/Drill.htm" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #f00d0d; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.nd.gov/ndic/Drill.htm</a> which appears to provide only token gestures of protection to lands and sacred sites, like Killdeer Mountain, from rapidly energy efforts.</div>
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“We call on the North Dakota Industrial Commission [NDIC] to implement stronger safe guards and policies in protecting Mni Wiconi, water, aquifers and sacred sites such as Killdeer Mountain in its Extraordinary Places policy. Massive energy projects threaten traditional Native sacred places, as well as, the drinking water of all North Dakotans. Further, we call on the NDIC to comply with <em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), which requires Federal agencies to consider the effects of their actions on historic properties and to seek comments from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)</em>. We encourage the NDIC to fully consider the impacts of energy projects, such as fracking, on aquifers, waterways, sacred sites, as well as, on human and environmental health and strengthen the “Extraordinary Places” policy to provide safeguards in protecting and preserving them.”</div>
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Letter: Unlike Isern team, Basin consultant did good work</h1>
There is no doubt that in 1864 soldiers attacked a Sioux village at Killdeer Mountains, Dakota Territory. What is not known is exactly where that battle took place.<div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; line-height: 17px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 3px 0px;">
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There is no doubt that in 1864 soldiers attacked a Sioux village at Killdeer Mountains, Dakota Territory. What is not known is exactly where that battle took place.</div>
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In reports in The Forum and in a Feb. 13 Forum editorial, North Dakota State University history professor Tom Isern claims to know the boundaries of the battlefield and charges Basin Electric’s proposed transmission line will adversely affect that battlefield. Isern further claims he and his students have been studying the battlefield and reached conclusions contrary to a Basin Electric Power Cooperative report. However, he has yet to present definitive evidence substantiating his claims. He relies on a National Park Service map showing a “potential” boundary for the battlefield, a boundary that has yet to be ground-truthed.</div>
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According to the reporting and the editorial, Isern says Metcalf Archaeological Consultants Inc. “purposefully ignored pertinent findings about the cultural importance of the area.” In fact, Basin contracted with Metcalf in 2011 to conduct archaeological investigations of the proposed transmission line.</div>
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Metcalf searched site files of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, consulted with local landowners about possible impacts of the line on the battlefield, walked the project corridor, used metal detectors and excavated shovel tests within the potential boundaries of the battlefield, and conducted historic research in an attempt to determine if the transmission line would harm anything significant associated with the battle. In the eight miles that supposedly transect the potential battlefield, we found four artifacts from the time period, all bullets, and no other evidence.</div>
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Basin also contracted with a tribal consulting firm to survey the corridor in 2013.</div>
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Although Isern applied for and received a grant to investigate the battlefield, he failed to notify local landowners and ask permission to study their lands. Instead, the landowners learned of his proposed study from a newspaper article.</div>
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Because he failed to discuss the project with them, they denied him access and continue to refuse to work with him. Basin, Metcalf, and the Historical Society have done due diligence in compliance with state and federal laws. Local landowners respect and protect the battlefield. These landowners also recognize a need for the transmission line and granted Basin right of way across their lands. Basin and Metcalf have actively sought their input as to an appropriate and acceptable route.</div>
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<em>Banks, Ph.D., heads the Bismarck office of Metcalf Archaeological Consultants Inc., which has its headquarters in Golden, Colo.</em></div>
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<strong style="color: #990000;">Killdeer Mountain Conflict 150 Years Later</strong><br />By Dakota Goodhouse<br />BISMARCK – Killdeer Mountain is hardly a mountain, but it is a beautiful and majestic plateau nonetheless as it rises gently above the prairie steppe. In summer, native plants and flowers dot the hillside and emerge from the cracks of shattered sandstone. Short and medium indigenous grasses sway in a wind that has been present since creation.<br />The song of coyotes hauntingly fills the air on a gentle midsummer’s eve. The trees – a mix of ash and cottonwood – grow in clusters, but it’s the cottonwoods that sway and shush the world. Crickets take up their hum in the twilight where the cicadas left-off during the day. Aeries of golden eagles and hawks remind the meadowlarks and rabbits to keep a wary eye on the skies.<br />Killdeer Mountain is a sacred site of story, where young men went to pray. The summit receives yet those who still pray in the ways of their ancestors, but also hikers or naturalists, historians, archaeologists, biologists and paleontologists.<br /> The Lakĥóta call this site “Taĥčá Wakútepi,” Where They Kill Deer, but it was more than just a place to hunt. Young Lakĥóta and Dakĥóta men would ascend the hill for prayer and reflection in the ceremony called Haŋbléčiye, or Crying For A Vision. They would mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually prepare far in advance for this pilgrimage – the site for their quest determined long in advance. Their stay generally lasted four days on the hill or mountain, standing, kneeling or sitting while they prayed day and night to humble themselves before the Creator. Killdeer was and still is a special place for prayer and reflection.<br />Battle Site<br /> The site known today as Killdeer Battlefield, northwest of Killdeer, ND, is known primarily for the conflict that occurred on June 28, 1864. On that day, General Alfred Sully led a command of 2,200 soldiers in the last days of his Punitive Sioux Expedition, a military campaign organized in retaliation for the Minnesota-Dakota Conflict of 1862. The village of Lakota and Dakota that Sully attacked had little or nothing to do with the 1862 conflict. The Teton and Yanktonai who were present were previous allies who had fought under Colonel Leavenworth’s command in the Arikara War of 1823.<br /> Sully’s brutal assault continued into the evening and night with a hail of cannon volley. Children who were inadvertently left behind in the rain of fire were rounded up, scalped and killed.<br /> At the summit of Killdeer Mountain is a deep fissure, an open cave. Some call this cave “Medicine Hole.” Into this cave some of the Lakĥóta and Dakĥóta people fled when Sully began his unwarranted assault. Oral tradition has it that those who fled into the cave wound their way through the labyrinth and came out west of the mountain.<br />New Method of War<br /> Sully was operating according to “total war theory,” where aggressors see little difference between combatants and civilians. This meant the capture and imprisonment of innocent women and children, if they weren’t killed outright on the battlefield, and the wholesale destruction of supplies, possessions, property and resources. In the Civil War going on at the same time in the east, Union armies employed this tactic with success, affecting the outcome of that war. Total war was the military’s approach during the punitive campaigns in Dakota Territory in 1863 and 1864. Killdeer should be seen in the context of the Union’s Civil War military strategy. It should be preserved and interpreted for its tragic history and the graves should be protected of those still buried there.<br />Site Preservation<br /> The up-tick in western North Dakota oil development brings a modern assault on the Killdeer site. In January 2013, the North Dakota Industrial Commission approved over 50 wells on public and private land that fall within the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield study area. Notwithstanding the rights of private land owners, there is a need to defend against another tragedy.<br /> Upcoming this year, 150 years after the conflict, there is important work for those who believe in preserving as much of the natural, cultural and historical integrity of the site as possible. On June 28, 2014, the Killdeer Mountain Alliance, the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and Lakĥóta and Dakĥóta representatives will gather in a public forum in Killdeer, ND, and talk about the conflict, the site and preservation .<br />Here are two things you can and should do: Attend the public forum and planned commemoration in Killdeer on Saturday, June 28; and visit the North Dakota Industrial Commission online and watch for public meetings and hearings and plan to attend those. It is particularly important that Native People are seen and Native voices heard.<br /><em>Dakota Goodhouse is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is an instructor at United Tribes Technical College.</em></div>
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Recruited in the fall of 1861, Brackett's Battalion served longer than any other Minnesota unit during the Civil War. After campaigning in the Western Theater, the Battalion participated in the Northwestern Indian Expeditions of 1864 and 1865.</div>
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The men of Brackett's Battalion were recruited as the First, Second, and Third Companies of Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry. The captain of the Third Company was Alfred B. Brackett.</div>
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During the winter of 1861-1862, the companies were stationed at Benton Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri. Conditions were terrible and many of the men fell ill. The companies were assigned to a cavalry regiment in the Department of the Missouri called the Curtis Horse. Brackett was made major of the Third Battalion, which consisted of four companies.</div>
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In February, 1862, the Curtis Horse joined the Union Army of the Tennessee. The regiment was assigned to garrison duty because of its lack of training and weaponry. They garrisoned Forts Henry and Heiman in Tennessee for over a year.</div>
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The Curtis Horse did not fight in any major battles, instead serving a supportive role. The Minnesota companies escorted prisoners and dispatch riders. They repaired telegraph lines. Duties also included scouting for enemy forces, and occasionally engaging Confederate guerillas. In June of 1862, the Curtis Horse was renamed the Fifth Iowa Cavalry. Many of the Minnesota soldiers protested this change. They did not want to serve under the name of another state.</div>
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In June and July of 1863, the regiment participated in the Tullahoma Campaign. In little more than a week the Army of the Cumberland drove Confederate forces out of middle Tennessee. The Fifth Iowa screened the advance of the army and skirmished with enemy forces. The unit did not stay with the Army of the Cumberland for long. For the rest of the year they were stationed at Murfreesboro, Tennessee and patrolled northern Alabama.</div>
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In January of 1864, the unit was sent home on a thirty day furlough. Because of on-going conflicts with the Dakota in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, Brackett and Governor Alexander Ramsey arranged for the cavalrymen to be reassigned to the Department of the Northwest. The veteran soldiers were reorganized into a new battalion. New recruits were enlisted to fill the ranks. Major Brackett was given command, giving the unit the official name "Brackett's Battalion."</div>
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Brackett's Battalion began the second chapter of its service in February of 1864. The unit joined General Alfred Sully's army for the Northwestern Indian Expedition into Dakota Territory. The expedition was the continuation of a punitive campaign against the Dakota begun in 1863. It was also meant to subjugate any Indians considered hostile to overland routes that led to the gold-bearing headwaters of the Missouri River.</div>
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The expedition was punctuated by two battles. On July 28, 1864, Sully's army attacked an encampment composed mostly of Lakota including bands of the Hunkpapa, Sans Arcs, Miniconjous, and Blackfeet. One Wahpekute band of Dakota which had not participated in the U.S.-Dakota War was present as well.</div>
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The Indians defended themselves in a battle that lasted several hours, but were eventually defeated by superior firepower. Brackett's Battalion was noted for making a counter charge during the thickest of the fighting. The Battle of Killdeer Mountain ended with Sully's army burning the Indians' homes and the nearby woods.</div>
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After the victory, Sully marched south, and then west through the Badlands towards the Yellowstone River. During the march, a three day long skirmish called the Battle of the Badlands was fought. Sully's men were attacked by Lakota from August 7th through 9th. On August 17, Sully's command reached Fort Union. The campaign continued uneventfully for the next two months.</div>
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The Battalion's service was not yet over. After spending the winter at Fort Ridgley, the unit was assigned to a second expedition into Dakota Territory. The expedition of 1865 was more peaceful than the previous one, with no major battles. The following winter was spent garrisoning western posts.</div>
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In May and June of 1866, the men were finally mustered out. The soldiers of Brackett's Battalion had served a total of four years and nine months.</div>
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The latest reporting on a proposed electric transmission line across a historic North Dakota battlefield suggests line advocates manipulated data regarding the historical significance of the site. An 1864 battle between American Indians and the U.S. Cavalry has been characterized as one of the most important clashes in the nation’s Indian wars. The Basin Electric line will cross the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield about eight miles north of Killdeer, in Dunn County.</div>
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In a Sunday story by The Forum’s Patrick Springer, a North Dakota State University academic who has a grant to study the battlefield charged that a review commissioned by Basin purposefully ignored pertinent findings about the cultural importance of the area. Tom Isern is historian-director of the Center for Cultural Heritage Renewal at NDSU. He and his students have been studying the battlefield, and have come to conclusions at some variance with findings in a Basin report. Basin’s consultant admitted to being aware of a National Park Service report that emphasized the area’s historic and cultural values. Basin’s review did not include that evaluation.</div>
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Isern said of the Basin review that “omissions were made knowingly” to avoid controversy that could stall the project. The consultant Basin hired declined comment. A Basin spokesman conceded the consultant knew of the Park Service study but could not explain why it was not in Basin’s review.</div>
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Additionally, Basin is a member of Touchstone Energy Partners, which recently donated $1.3 million to the State Historical Society, which, Isern suggested, might explain the society’s reluctance to get more involved in the dispute.</div>
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Finally, United Tribes of North Dakota last fall passed a resolution opposing development that would disturb the site. That’s where it apparently ends for the tribes. Thus far, there has been no hint tribal leaders are ready to further challenge the line’s route.</div>
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It’s a clash of values. No one disputes that the power line is needed to serve electricity demand in oil country. And no one denies the unique historical importance of the battlefield. But given Basin’s incomplete assessment of the cultural value of the site, and given the pro-development tilt of the state’s regulators, the power line as configured looks to be a done deal without a comprehensive assessment of factors other than suitability for the line.</div>
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It’s another example of how skewed applications of the state’s “business friendly” mantra have become heritage and history unfriendly. The power line dispute is one element of a complicated and evolving saga. And this time, “when the land is quiet again,” the loss of values North Dakotans say they cherish could be staggering.</div>
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FARGO – Biologists are concerned that a proposed power transmission line that would skirt the southern Killdeer Mountains in western North Dakota could disrupt nesting habitat for protected golden eagles.<br />
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FARGO – Biologists are concerned that a proposed power transmission line that would skirt the southern Killdeer Mountains in western North Dakota could disrupt nesting habitat for protected golden eagles.<br />
A research biologist said the eagles around the Killdeer Mountains are of special concern because they exhibit rare paired hunting and group hunting behavior, never before documented in golden eagles.<br />
Marguerite Coyle, an assistant biology professor at the University of Jamestown who has studied the golden eagles since 2002, said placement and construction of the power line could disturb nesting sites. She’s also concerned eagles could be electrocuted or killed by colliding with the lines in flight.<br />
“It’s a big concern,” Coyle said. “You’re putting power lines through one of the highest-density areas of golden eagles in North Dakota.”<br />
Coyle has submitted testimony about her concerns about habitat disruption in federal and state reviews of the power line Basin Electric Power Cooperative is proposing that would extend almost 200 miles from its Antelope Valley Station northwest of Beulah to a substation near Neset in western North Dakota.<br />
Coyle and biologists for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which also has provided comments about the proposal, are concerned that the project’s disruptions would be especially harmful to breeding eagles and juvenile eagles.<br />
The transmission project should take an alternative route to avoid what Coyle calls “vital nesting habitat” for golden eagles, she wrote to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, which is conducting the federal environmental and cultural resources review of the project.<br />
Basin Electric said the power line is needed to meet a dramatic increase in power demand stemming from the oil boom in western North Dakota.<br />
“Basin Electric’s current route goes through the heart of one of the most important” golden eagle habitat sites in the state, Coyle said. The area provides important nesting and hunting terrain, and also is a major migration route for eagles in North Dakota, she said.<br />
“They are using that area very densely,” she said.<br />
Federal laws protecting bald eagles and golden eagles require that eagle nests not be disturbed unless a permit has been obtained, which requires an eagle conservation plan.<br />
A draft review by the Rural Utilities Service found about 97 raptor nests within a one-mile corridor of the proposed transmission route but did not identify any active golden eagle nests, said Jeffrey Towner, field supervisor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s North Dakota Field Office in Bismarck.<br />
But even eagle nests that appear inactive or unoccupied cannot be disturbed and should be protected, Towner said. Eagles sometimes use multiple nests and rotate among them, he said.<br />
Federal wildlife officials are asking the project reviewers to make “doubly sure” there are no eagle nests that could be disturbed by the transmission line, he said.<br />
“We believe they should take our recommendation into account,” Towner said. “In my view, they would be well-advised to make absolutely sure that anything they authorize or provide funding for would not result in unauthorized taking of an eagle.”<br />
The route Basin Electric proposes for the transmission line in the area of the Killdeer Mountains in Dunn County has strong support from landowners, said Curt Pearson, a Basin spokesman.<br />
Because of strong landowner acceptance, and problems encountered by development farther south of the Killdeer Mountains, Basin Electric is not proposing any alternate routes in the area, he said.<br />
“Basin is going to be working with the federal agencies to mitigate any impacts that are identified,” Pearson said.<br />
Although advocating for protection of eagles and nesting sites, federal wildlife officials are not asking that the transmission route be altered. Standard procedures call for taking steps to minimize bird collisions or electrocutions from power lines, Towner said.<br />
The cooperative hunting behavior of the golden eagles in North Dakota first was observed and documented in 2003, Coyle said.<br />
Researchers observed 11 groups of adult eagles, with two or more hunting together in nine areas known to be occupied by the eagles. Since then, cooperative hunting among golden eagles has been documented in multiple years and sites, suggesting to Coyle that the practice is not a “fluke.”<br />
All of the instances of group hunting involved nesting eagles, with many confirmed to be rearing young, Coyle said.<br />
Because of widespread oil and gas development, golden eagles and other species are experiencing habitat fragmentation and human disturbances, Towner said.<br />
“We believe they’re under unprecedented pressure, and we’re concerned,” he said. “I think wildlife in general is under unprecedented pressure.”<br />
Eagles have been protected by federal law since 1940.<br />
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FARGO – Call it the second Battle of Killdeer Mountain – a clash between growing power needs associated with the oil boom and preservation of what one historian calls the Gettysburg of the Plains.<br />
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FARGO – Call it the second Battle of Killdeer Mountain – a clash between growing power needs associated with the oil boom and preservation of what one historian calls the Gettysburg of the Plains.<br />
It’s a clash the power company, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, tried to avoid by purposefully ignoring the historic significance of a portion of the path of a proposed new electric transmission line, according to a Fargo history professor who has a grant to study the area.<br />
“I think omissions were made knowingly. That is my belief,” said Tom Isern, the historian-director of the Center for Cultural Heritage Renewal at North Dakota State University, of the company’s review of the site.<br />
Isern also questions why the state agency charged with historic preservation – a recipient of a donation of more than $1 million from a group of which Basin Electric is a member – hasn’t been more involved in speaking out about the power-line plan.<br />
<strong>History long known</strong><br />
The Battle of Killdeer Mountain saw a huge engagement between the U.S. Army and Sioux Indians in a punitive attack by 2,200 soldiers against a native village encampment of 1,500 in 1864.<br />
A state historic site located a half-mile north of the proposed transmission line commemorates the battle, which involved Sitting Bull and Gall as young warriors and is seen as a prelude to Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876.<br />
The rugged Killdeer Mountains once were considered for inclusion in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and were proposed as a freestanding national park by a prominent group of North Dakotans in 1919.<br />
The National Park Service in 2010 noted the historical significance of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield area, one of five Civil War-era battle sites in North Dakota it said are likely eligible for designation on the National Register of Historic Places.<br />
Yet a cultural resources review by Basin Electric, which is proposing the $350 million transmission project, omitted mention of the sprawling battlefield, which the Park Service said could cover 17,340 acres, an area of roughly 36 square miles highlighted for further study.<br />
The proposed power line route, which skirts the south side of the Killdeer Mountains in Dunn County, would run eight miles through the study area.<br />
The battlefield omission came despite the fact that the consultant whose firm conducted the review twice earlier had publicly noted the area’s historic and archeological significance – even telling state oil and gas regulators of the National Park Service report.<br />
“The excellent condition of these landscapes where U.S. Army and American Indian combatants fought provides a unique opportunity – all five of North Dakota’s Civil War battlefields could be protected completely and permanently,” the Park Service said.<br />
The Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program noted, however, that “little effort has been made to formally protect these historic places,” and said rapid energy development made the Killdeer Mountain site the most threatened in North Dakota.<br />
Isern calls the review “shoddy” and deliberately incomplete to avoid controversy that could jeopardize the transmission project.<br />
He also said he wonders whether a $1.3 million gift from Touchstone Energy Partners, of which Basin Electric is a member, might have muzzled the State Historical Society of North Dakota, which is charged with historic preservation, on the issue.<br />
A “chain of evidence,” including a letter and legislative testimony by the consultant who headed Basin Electric’s flawed cultural resources review, led Isern to conclude the omission was deliberate.<br />
“I no longer believe mistakes were made,” he said.<br />
A Basin Electric spokesman acknowledges that the consultant knew of the 2010 National Park Service report recommending preservation of the battlefield area, and could not provide an explanation for the area’s omission in the document listing areas of concern.<br />
In written comments to both state and federal regulators reviewing the transmission project, Isern has called for preservation of the entire battlefield area, believed to be the site of the largest clash between the Army and American Indians.<br />
The State Historical Society of North Dakota, which includes the State Historic Preservation Office, has not called for the transmission line to avoid the battlefield area.<br />
It did, however, reach an agreement with Basin Electric to move a planned substation outside the battlefield area and to provide a “viewshed” study to show how the transmission line would alter the landscape.<br />
Basin also agreed to perform a metal detector survey along the transmission line route in the battlefield area, with the aim of identifying any battlefield-related artifacts.<br />
Those steps don’t go far enough to protect what Isern regards as North Dakota’s most significant historic site. The Center for Cultural Heritage Renewal, which Isern heads, received a grant from the National Park Service to study the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield area.<br />
“This is trivializing the whole thing,” he said. “The problem is we’re building a physical structure on the battlefield,” he added, referring to towers that will support the transmission lines. “This is the Gettysburg of the Plains.”<br />
The project is still seeking permit approval, both from federal and state officials. The company hopes to start construction later this year.<br />
<strong>Filings omitted concern</strong><br />
The proposed route of Basin Electric’s proposed 197-mile transmission line first became known to the public Aug. 23, 2013, in a letter to the editor of the Dunn County Herald from a nearby landowner.<br />
Basin Electric filed a letter of intent to build the transmission line, from its Antelope Valley station northwest of Beulah to its Neset substation on Dec. 5, 2011.<br />
Representatives of Basin Electric repeatedly have said the cooperative first became aware of Isern’s planned study of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield area Aug. 27, when one of its executives received a call from the State Historic Preservation Office.<br />
But Basin Electric’s spokesman acknowledges that its cultural heritage consultant, Kimball Banks of Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, knew of the National Park Service’s 2010 report highlighting the battlefield’s importance and eligibility for preservation.<br />
In fact, Banks wrote a letter to the North Dakota Industrial Commission dated Nov. 28, 2012, warning oil and gas regulators that inadequate management of oil development in the Killdeer Mountains could adversely impact “archaeological and historic sites important in and unique to North Dakota’s heritage.”<br />
Also, on Feb. 7, 2013, Banks testified before lawmakers on behalf of a proposed $250,000 study, supported by state historic preservation officials, of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield area, which has never been extensively surveyed despite its importance.<br />
“This has national significance as well as state,” Banks said, according to legislative minutes.<br />
Banks declined to be interviewed about why, since he knew of the historical significance of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield, he neglected to mention it in the cultural resource report for Basin Electric. He referred questions to Basin.<br />
Curt Pearson, the Basin spokesman, acknowledged that Banks knew of the National Park Service’s interest in preserving the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield area, but could not explain why Basin Electric’s filings for the project omitted noting the sprawling area as one of potential concern.<br />
Basin Electric will use poles consisting of a single column to support the transmission wires, instead of the more obtrusive double-poled H-posts, typically five to seven per mile, Pearson said. The posts will be rusty, to blend in better with the background, he said.<br />
So far, a metal detector survey of the battlefield area found two lead “Minnie balls” and a copper bullet cartridge that might be related to the battle, but cannot be precisely dated. Shovel tests at two locations found chipped stone debris.<br />
Fern Swenson, the state’s deputy historic preservation director, said the state is fulfilling its responsibilities, although it has not sent representatives to testify at hearings, and has not been outspoken about the area’s historical significance.<br />
“We do our job as the State Historic Preservation Office,” Swenson said. “We follow the regulations. We’ve been part of the process.”<br />
<strong>Site sacred to tribes</strong><br />
The Killdeer Mountains are held as sacred to the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes. The Medicine Hole atop Killdeer Mountain plays a crucial role in their origin stories.<br />
The battlefield area also contains the graves of Dakota and Lakota Sioux who were killed in the fighting. Their graves, near the area of combat, are north of the planned transmission line.<br />
For those reasons, the United Tribes of North Dakota last fall passed a resolution opposing further development that would disturb the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield site.<br />
Calvin Grinnell, a curator for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, said many of the tribes’ members are resigned to the likelihood that the transmission line will be built on the proposed route.<br />
“It should be protected more,” said Grinnell, who serves as president of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. “It’s deserving of protection. That definitely is an area that is sacred to us.”<br />
As a form of mitigation, Grinnell would like to see Basin Electric contribute resources to native cultural preservation programming, as coal mining has done.<br />
“We’re kind of pragmatic about it,” Grinnell said. “If there’s something that’s going to go through, it’s going to go through.”<br />
Rob Sand, who ranches in the Killdeer Mountains and is a member of the Killdeer Mountain Alliance, a preservation advocacy group, said the state was “negligent” when lawmakers last year rejected the proposed study of the battlefield area.<br />
Sand doesn’t fault the State Historical Society of North Dakota for not being a more vocal advocate for preservation of the battlefield.<br />
“I don’t think it’s their way to be advocates,” he said. “That can be political and can go either way. But their mission is protection and preservation.”<br />
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Industrial Commission of North Dakota<br />
Wednesday, January 22, 2014<br />
11:00 a.m. – Pioneer Room<br />
I. North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources Business<br />
A. Discussion regarding proposed rules relating to general drilling permit consideration;<br />
designation of places of extraordinary significance; and additional requirements for<br />
permitting in places of extraordinary significance. (Attachment 1)<br />
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Group wants cooperative to ‘go back to the drawing board’ on project</h1>
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KILLDEER Basin Electric Cooperative is proposing to build, operate and maintain a 278-mile transmission project from near Beulah via the Killdeer Mountains to the Tioga area. The cooperative said it is doing the project for additional electric transmission capacity.</div>
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But a citizens' group, Killdeer Mountain Alliance, wants the federal Rural Utilities Service to require Basin Electric to "go back to the drawing board" on the project because the proposed route for the transmission lines is in the Killdeer Mountains, where a historic site is located.</div>
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A public hearing was held in Watford City Jan. 16 to assess public response to the supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Basin Electric's proposed project.</div>
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Rob Sand, a spokesman for the alliance, said in a news release the alliance's fundamental problem with the supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement is it proposes no alternatives that would avoid constructing eight miles of transmission lines "through the heart of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield. Consequently, it fails to comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act," Sand said.</div>
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Curt Pearson, manager of Media and Community Relations for Basin Electric in Bismarck, said the transmission lines, as proposed, would run south of the designated historic site (Killdeer Mountain Battlefield State Historic site) but it would cross a proposed study area. He said the land in the proposed study area is privately-owned.</div>
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Pearson said Basin Electric did not know about the proposed study area until August 2013.</div>
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The National Park Service awarded a grant for $62,761 to North Dakota State University, Fargo, for a two-year study of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield according to an announcement by NDSU last fall.</div>
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Basin Electric's plan is to build, operate and maintain an approximately 278-mile, 345-kilovolt transmission project from Antelope Valley Station to the Neset Substation near Tioga. The Jan. 16 hearing was held for the public to evaluate an additional transmission line segment that would interceonnect with the previously proposed Antelope Valley Station to Neset project at a switchyard near Killdeer. Called the north Killdeer loop, it includes 60 miles of 345-kV transmission line and two substations that will deliver power into member cooperative McKenzie Electric Cooperative's service territory, according to Basin Electric information.</div>
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The alliance also said, in the news release, that the public meeting in Watford City was not well advertised in the local media and should have been advertised a minimum of 15 days in advance so people could have learned about it in adequate time. About 20 people attended the Jan. 16 hearing, according to Basin Electric.</div>
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Pearson said the first legal notice about the meeting ran last month, with some of the seven newspapers in the area of the project first running the notice Dec. 22. The notice ran a second time in January. He said Basin Electric also ran a story about the upcoming meeting as well as has information about the proposed project on its website at (<a href="http://www.basinelectric.com/" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">www.basinelectric.com</a>).</div>
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Pearson said the public can comment on the proposed project until Feb. 3. Written comments on the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement should be emailed to<a href="mailto:dennis.rankin@wdc.usda.gov" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">dennis.rankin@wdc.usda.gov</a> or mail to: Dennis Rankin, environmental protection specialist, USDA, Rural Utilities Service, 1400 Independence Ave., SW, Stop 1571, Washington, D.C., 20250-1571.</div>
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The Killdeer Mountain Alliance (KMA), a citizens’ group committed to protection of the Killdeer Mountains of western North Dakota, has asked the Rural Utility Service (RUS) to require Basin Electric to “go back to the drawing board” on its proposed transmission lines in the Killdeer Mountain area.</div>
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At a public hearing on January 16 in Watford City, ND, the group questioned the short notice for the hearing as well as Basin Electric’s failure to propose alternative routes that would avoid the historic Killdeer Mountain Battlefield.</div>
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Rob Sand, a spokesperson for the KMA, noted that RUS guidelines require that their public hearings be “’well-advertised in local media outlets a minimum of 15 days prior to the time of the meeting.’”</div>
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“Of the small number who made it to the Thursday meeting,” Sand said, “many learned of it only through a posting on the Killdeer Mountain Alliance facebook site.</div>
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“Several of us had been watching for a notice, because we knew this hearing was supposed to take place in January.</div>
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“Someone finally found an announcement on the Basin Electric website that was posted a week ago. That hardly meets the “well-advertised-in-local-media” standard.”</div>
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The hearing’s purpose was to assess public response to the supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) for Basin Electric’s proposed Antelope Valley Station to Neset Transmission Project. The SDEIS was developed to expand the alternatives being considered.</div>
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The KMA’s fundamental problem with the SDEIS is that it proposes no alternatives that would avoid passing through the heart of the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield.</div>
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“This means it fails to comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),” Sand said.</div>
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“Basin Electric is requesting Federal taxpayer subsidies for constructing the transmission project,” he explained. “That’s why it requires RUS approval. We want to know why the RUS is even considering using its funds to degrade the Killdeer Mountain Battlefield when its sister Federal agency, the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior, used taxpayer money to study the battlefield site and identified it as a place worthy of protection through inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.”</div>
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“Also important is that for the first time the Rural Utility Service and the other cooperating agencies have recognized the extent and importance of the Killdeer Mountain Battle of 1864,” Sand said. “This was an important historical and cultural Civil War site from the perspective of both Union Army forces and the Native Americans who fought and died there. It’s an essential part of American history and key to understanding the U.S.-Dakota Wars.”</div>
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The KMA statement at the hearing closed with a question and a conclusion: “What must be done to avoid degrading this unique historical and cultural site on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Killdeer Mountain, which took place on July 28, 1864? The project must be sent back to the drawing board. Alternatives that avoid crossing the battlefield must be evaluated in a detail comparable to analysis of the present alternatives. It must be demonstrated that it is not practicable to avoid degrading the Battlefield site. Only then will the requirements of the Environmental Protection Act be satisfied, and we as citizens and taxpayers can have confidence that the decisions of government are indeed in the public interest.”</div>
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“We call on ND officials to take note of these problems and insist on alternative proposals that avoid crossing the Battlefield,” Sand said. “That is what the National Environmental Policy Act requires.</div>
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“It would be a tragedy if a huge transmission line across the Battlefield were approved and under construction just as a major study of the Battlefield has finally been funded, and commemoration ceremonies for this summer’s 150th anniversary of the Killdeer Mountain Battle are being planned. North Dakotans deserve better than this."</div>
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