User:Hungrywolvesgrind/North Dakota oil boom/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Bibliography

Geaumont, Benjamin. “The Influence of Species Richness and Forb Seed Density on Grassland Restoration in the Badlands of North Dakota, USA.” Web of Science, UNIV WISCONSIN PRESS, June 2019, www-webofscience-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000467981600010.

• This is an academic website explaining how the Indigenous people of the region valued the badlands that the oil fields were built on. It explains how people could restore the area back to a healthy badlands ecosystem, now that the oil drilling there has died down. I would mostly use to learn how the Natives really used that area before the boom.

CONWAY, KYLE, et al. “Passing Through: Migration, Class, Crime, and Identity in the Oilfields of North Dakota.” Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 4, 2018, pp. 425–32. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26535406. Accessed 27 Jan. 2024.

• This is an academic article about the social infrastructure of the oil fields in North Dakota, and how it changed during the boom. This is insightful pertaining to trends or changes in population demographics, behaviors, and economic effects in that time.

Fernando, F.N. and Cooley, D.R. (2016), Socioeconomic System of the Oil Boom and Rural Community Development in Western North Dakota. Rural Sociology, 81: 407-444. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12100

• This article explores the socioeconomic effects on Western North Dakota during the boom. It discusses the need to develop affordable housing, invest in community infrastructure, expand public services, attract new businesses to the area, and develop better community integration strategies to build trust and unity within the community.

Outline of proposed changes

I will improve my article by adding more modern citations, as everything cited on the original article is outdated. I will also add a substantial of new content under the social effects subsection regarding a violation of Native tradition, a lack of supportive infrastructure for safe, affordable living, and the change in socioeconomic trends and demographics. I want to expand on the increase of crime in the area, and the root issue that led to this increase. The original article states how much the population increased in quantity, but not who was moving there- so I will expand on that. I also want to touch on the quality of life if living in this region as an oil driller.