by Mike Garrity | Mar 31, 2005 | AWR, bears, fish, hunting, Kootenai National Forest, mining
by Michael Jamison, the Missoulian KALISPELL – A controversial plan to mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness was pulled off the table Wednesday, with a court ruling that federal wildlife officials put grizzly bears and bull trout at risk when they...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 31, 2005 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, fish, mining
by Susan Gallagher – Associated Press Writer – 03/31/05 HELENA—A proposed copper and silver mine challenged by environmental groups — and by jeweler Tiffany & Co. — has been sidelined by a judge who found federal officials gave approval without...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 20, 2005 | AWR, BLM
by Tony Tweedale Everyone acknowledges that invasive plants (“weeds”) can harm native ecosystems. But land stewards as the USFS, and BLM seem to see only the invasives, and disregard a crucial variable: something has to change for an invasive to become...