It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of Sebastian Braun’s Bearing the Bearing the Burden of Booms: Energy, Extraction, Communities and Landscapes on the Plains.  It is the third book on the Bakken to have come out from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and a major contribution to ongoing conversation on the impact of the 21st century North Dakota oil boom on the past, present, and future of the state. It is also timely. Recent news that Continental Resources, one of the stalwarts of the Bakken, has paused drilling caused anxieties across the state. On the other…