by Mike Garrity | Jan 24, 2013 | AWR, bears, pine
by Alex Sakariassen Back in 2009, environmentalists successfully challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to lift federal protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem. The victory hinged on the decline of whitebark pine in the...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 18, 2013 | AWR, bears, Granite Butte Lookout, Helena National Forest, pine, polar bear, squirrels, wolverines, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week seeking to force the federal government into listing the whitebark pine as a threatened or endangered species. In July 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that the...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 17, 2013 | AWR, bears, logging, pine
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian A pair of Montana environmental groups have accused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of stalling efforts to give federal protection to whitebark pine trees, which are disappearing from the northern Rocky Mountains. “Whitebark...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 16, 2013 | AWR, bears, pine
contact Steve Kelly, Alliance for the Wild Rockies (406) 586-4421 Matthew Koehler, WildWest Institute (406) 396-0321 “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already concluded that whitebark pine faces numerous threats, including climate change, that are so...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 8, 2013 | AWR, wolverines
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Wolverine trapping in Montana effectively ended on Monday after a court case challenging its legality looks to last beyond the season’s end. And an anticipated federal rule could put the rare predator on the Endangered Species...
