Jim Fuglie is a native of Hettinger, ND, a U.S. Navy veteran (1968-1972) and majored in communications at Dickinson State College (now Dickinson State University) in Dickinson, ND. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, as a speechwriter and communications director for North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Myron Just and as Executive Director of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party.
In 1985, Jim was appointed North Dakota Tourism Director by Governor George Sinner and served in that post until 1992. He later worked as Development Director for the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation and as public relations director for Kranzler Kingsley Communications in Bismarck. He retired in 2009 and he and his wife Lillian, the retired Director of Library Services at Dickinson State University, now live in Bismarck.
He is active in, and has served on the boards of, numerous non-profit organizations, including the Board of Directors of the International Peace Garden. He writes about politics and prairie literature on this blog, http://theprairieblog.areavoices.com/.
Enjoy your comments, alerts and rants Jim. Keep it up. You’re my personal reward for surfing the web. Don’t stop. Sheldon Green
I noticed in your discussion on the Wilderness areas . you mentioned nothing changed there except fences, why are fences given a pass?
Rick, I imagine the fences were there long ago, and certainly when the management plan was written. Kind of a “pre-existing condition” if you will. Because there are numerous ranchers grazing on each of the units proposed for wilderness, likely the fences are there to manage the grazing. My understanding is that once they become official wilderness areas, no new fences will be allowed. If wilderness advocates are successful, maybe someday, a hundred years from now, the fences will fall down and it will be open range again. We can only hope.
Jim,
A lady named Elizabeth Farnsworth and her partner Terry Evans have produced a blog about their several trips to the oil patch. Their blog can be read on the website of the Nevada Museum of Art. They will also have an exhibit coming up at the Field Museum in Chicago. They spent part of a day at our place north of New Town and interviewed a number of folks we invited to be part of their work. They are very sympathetic to those suffering from oil company greed and lack of ND Governmental oversight. She enjoys your writing. Jim Stenslie
Well, that’s a pretty good blog they write. I’ll give them a little publicity one of these days. Thanks.