by Mike Garrity | Nov 29, 2011 | AWR, fish
by Amy Joi O’Donoghue BOULDER, Garfield County — Forest Service officials have indefinitely called off a plan to poison an 8-mile stretch of Boulder Creek to kill non-native trout and replace them with Colorado cutthroat trout. Resident opposition to the plan...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 22, 2011 | AWR, forest, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, wolverines
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council are pleased to announce that the Lewis and Clark National Forest has withdrawn the planned Blakenship Vegetation...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 18, 2011 | AWR, University of Montana
by Chelsi Moy of the Missoulian The University of Montana volunteered Thursday to pay for additional pollution-control testing to ensure emissions from its proposed biomass boiler meet air quality standards. The move came as the Missoula City-County Air Pollution...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 11, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Forest Service has asked a judge to lift his block of a logging project near an endangered grizzly population in northwestern Montana, saying a new analysis shows bears don’t frequent that area of the Kootenai...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, wolves
by Matthew Brown, Associated Press, from Billings, Montana (AP) PASADENA, Calif. — Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its...