by Mike Garrity | May 25, 2012 | AWR, fish, logging, opinion
by Michael Garrity, Opinion Columnists A handful of timber corporations recently took out full-page ads statewide to criticize the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for doing what we do well — working to keep Montana “high, wide and handsome” as Joseph Kinsey...
by Mike Garrity | May 25, 2012 | AWR, bears, Yellowstone National Park
by Martin Kidston, Billings Gazette CODY, Wyo. — A conservation group based in Montana is asking the Shoshone National Forest to consult the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when considering the impacts a zip line at Sleeping Giant Ski Area might have on grizzly bears...
by Mike Garrity | May 17, 2012 | AWR, bears, bison, buffalo, cattle, cows, hazing, Yellowstone National Park
‘Til the Cows Come Home U.S. Judge Halts Aerial Herding of Yellowstone Bison Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Helicopter Use in Bison Hazing Federal Judge Halts Low-Level Helicopter Bison Hazing to Protect Yellowstone Grizzlies Order, May 14, 2012 (doc) Cattle...
by Mike Garrity | May 17, 2012 | AWR, bears, bison, cattle, cows, Yellowstone National Park
by George Ochenski How much longer will we haze bison with helicopters? It’s springtime in the Rockies and that means the brutal practice of hazing bison off federal lands to make room for cattle is once again in full swing, as state and federal agents seek to...
by Mike Garrity | May 15, 2012 | AWR, bears, bison, buffalo
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer For at least the next two weeks, Montana Department of Livestock helicopters will cease to hover in the skies around Yellowstone National Park. Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell agreed with the arguments...
