by Mike Garrity | Jun 26, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging
by Matt Volz, Associated Press A federal appeals court has blocked the U.S. Forest Service from logging trees on more than 1,600 acres of burned forest in southwestern Montana, but the agency says most of the timber already has been harvested. The 9th U.S. Circuit...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 26, 2010 | AWR, Troubadour Reunion Tour
by John S. Adams, Tribune Capitol Bureau HELENA — A Montana ecosystem protection group received a big financial boost last week, thanks to world-famous recording legends Carole King and James Taylor. On June 20, the duo presented Alliance for the Wild Rockies...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2010 | AWR, pine, wildlife
by Sara Jane Johnson, Director of the Native Ecosystems Council Ellen Simpson, the corporate lobbyist for the Montana Wood Products Association, claimed in a recent Your Turn that it is disingenuous for the Native Ecosystems Council and the Alliance for the Wild...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 23, 2010 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, goshawk, logging, pileated woodpecker
by George Wuerthner The Elliston Face logging sale on the Helena National Forest near the town of Elliston is yet another example of how the Forest Service exploits the public’s misconceptions about wildfire and forest ecology to further its logging agenda. Like...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 15, 2010 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads, Yellowstone National Park
by Brad Fuqua, The Western News U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last week issued a temporary restraining order on three proposed logging projects in Kootenai National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies petitioned the court for the temporary restraining order...
