by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2011 | AWR, bears, Helena National Forest, logging, lynx, opinion, roads, wildlife
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, IR Your Turn A Nov. 1 article in the Independent Record reported that a “collaborative” group developed and submitted to the Forest Service a proposal to log thousands of acres in and around an inventoried roadless area...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 7, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, hunting, wolves
by Matthew Brown, Associated Press UPDATE: With more than 150 wolves shot in the Northern Rockies so far this fall, a panel of federal judges on Tuesday is scheduled to consider an emergency halt to public hunts for the animals. Congress cleared the way for the hunts...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 4, 2011 | AWR, wildlife
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Measure would preserve 23 million roadless acres as wilderness “While most of Congress works hard on giving away national resources to the powerful lobbies for select...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 4, 2011 | AWR, bears, fish, roads, wolves
by John S. Adams, Great Falls Tribune Capital Bureau Chief HELENA — A sweeping bill that would designate 23 million acres of roadless public lands in five Northern Rockies states as wilderness was reintroduced in Congress this week. The acreage falls in Montana,...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 3, 2011 | AWR, hunting, logging, mining
contacts Jon Houston, Maloney, (202) 225-7944 Eben Burnham-Snyder, Markey, (202) 225-2836 Adam Sarvana, Grijalva, (202) 225-2435 Mike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 –HR 3334 would preserve 23 million acres in Northern Rockies–...