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Local, state and federal agencies responded in April to the Horse Pasture Fire on the Little Missouri National Grassland, located just north of Theodore Roosevelt National Park – North Unit, that burned 5,000 acres. Extreme drought has exacerbated the fire threat in western North Dakota this year, where McKenzie County is experiencing its fifth driest year in 127 years. PHOTO COURTESY NEAL A. SHIPMAN/MCKENZIE COUNTY FARMER

After watching his father fight fires in western North Dakota during a 20-year firefighting career, Eric Hellandsaas learned a thing or two about s

Josh Kramer

A few months back, our editor, Cally Peterson, shared with me a story idea chronicling her personal experience as an 11-year-old in our nation’s ca

Sloane McCray

Throughout human history, the acquisition of knowledge was a tedious and most painful objective.

Ring-necked pheasant

PHEASANTS

Al Gustin

Our daughter in New York sent me a BBC article she came across about the future of farming.

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I thought, too, of ranch wives as business partners. Our neighbor married a small-town girl from Minnesota.

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“This facility gives our summer camp program a physical presence in the eastern part of the state and complements our camp facility in western Nort

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Why eat vegetables and fruits?

Jonathan Anderson, director of the Tribal Business Information Center on the campus of Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates since 2002, is part of a steering committee working to establish a credit union. If successful, Oyate Community Credit Union would be the first – and only – financial institution in Sioux County. Photo by NDAREC/Liza Kessel

“A credit union is the right fit for our community and would be owned by the people of the tribe,” says Joseph McNeil Jr., Standing Rock Sioux Trib

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Have I mentioned I hate math?