by Mike Garrity | Oct 22, 2012 | AWR, elk, Elkhorn, logging
by Mike Garrity, OPED, Your Turn in Helena Independent Record Eve Byron’s well-written article in the IR on Oct. 17 about the Forest Service decision to change elk cover standards should have been titled “Forest Service Wants to Destroy Elk Habitat.”...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 15, 2012 | AWR, bears, trapping, wolverines
by Le Monde.fr avec Reuters L’étonnant glouton va-t-il disparaître des montagnes d’Amérique du Nord ? Des associations américaines de protection de la nature ont saisi la justice au Montana pour faire interdire la chasse à cet animal vorace, dont il...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 12, 2012 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Conservation groups filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop wolverine trapping, the same day the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission approved new rules for wolf trapping. The Western Environmental Law Center requested an...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 11, 2012 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Laura Zuckerman, Reuters SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Conservationists on Thursday asked a state judge to end trapping of wolverines in Montana at a time when fewer than 300 of the elusive animals roam the Northern Rockies and Northern Cascades. Montana is the...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 11, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Associated Press BILLINGS — A coalition of groups trying to halt wolverine trapping in Montana filed a lawsuit Thursday that aims to provide new protections for an animal scientists warn will be imperiled by climate change in coming decades. Montana is the only...