by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2010 | AWR, bears, fire, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, roads
by Karl Puckett, Tribune staff writer Two environmental groups successfully appealed a plan by the Lewis and Clark National Forest to burn and log 763 acres of forest in the Benchmark Road corridor west of Augusta. The Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project was to use...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 8, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA – A U.S. Forest Service plan to spray herbicide from helicopters over the Kootenai National Forest does not adequately protect dozens of grizzly bears and could drive them from their habitat, a federal judge has ruled. U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Apr 7, 2010 | AWR, Yellowstone National Park
by Noelle Straub of Greenwire The National Park Service has finalized a policy that will allow parks to negotiate payments from researchers who use the results of their studies for commercial products or services. Parks will negotiate on a case-by-case basis for...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 7, 2010 | AWR, Kootenai National Forest
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT — Ruling on to a lawsuit by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a federal judge has halted proposed herbicide spraying from low-flying helicopters over 35,000 acres...
