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Wind powers community development
Placing a wind monitoring tower northwest of Nekoma in January 2006 was Cavalier County’s act of faith that wind development would blow its way.

“It was at a time when there wasn’t a whole lot of activity in the industry, but we’d been told we had to have a couple years of data before being approached by wind developers,” explains Carol Goodman, executive director of the Cavalier County Job Development Authority (JDA), which placed the tower to gather wind velocity data. “There were some local folks interested in pursuing it.” The JDA funded half of the $20,000 cost of the tower, using a $10,000 matching grant from the N.D. Department of Commerce Division of Community Services to fund the other half. FULL STORY

Climate stewardship conference draws international attention
Leaders and concerned citizens from the academic, scientific, public policy, electric utility, public interest and spiritual communities gathered last month to consider “stewardship” of the prairie.
The Prairie Climate Stewardship Conference was held July 10 and 11 on the University of Mary campus in Bismarck. The conference was presented by the Prairie Stewardship Network and the Great Plains Institute. FULL STORY