by Mike Garrity | Nov 17, 2009 | AWR, Gallatin National Forest, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Montana’s inaugural wolf season ended Monday after the state came close to the predetermined 75-wolf quota. As of Monday, hunters had reported shooting 72 wolves, mainly in the western half of the state, in the first-ever...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2009 | AWR, Glacier National Park, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
by George Ochenski One of Montana’s greatest assets is Glacier National Park, where the sheer beauty of the majestic landscape overwhelms visitors with stunning vistas of waterfalls, aquamarine lakes, hanging glaciers on towering peaks and abundant wildlife....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, wilderness
by Paul Edwards, Guest Columnist Well, finally – Sen. Jon Tester and a few strange bedfellows have floated a logging bill that everyone who works, has worked or hopes to work for one of four struggling lumber mills or one bankrupt cardboard box-maker can...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 5, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian KALISPELL – When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area’s wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. They were wrong....