by Mike Garrity | Mar 28, 2013 | AWR, bears, lynx
by Rob Chaney Ah, the difference two letters make. A U.S. District Court judge rejected a new version of the Colt-Summit forest project near Seeley Lake because the U.S. Forest Service didn’t follow his instructions. “The summary judgment order plainly...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 28, 2013 | AWR, bears, bison, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, Independent Record A conservation group in Helena filed a notice Thursday that it will appeal a federal court judge’s ruling that allows for helicopter hazing of bison to resume this spring near Yellowstone National Park. Mike Garrity, executive...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2013 | AWR, Lolo National Forest, lynx
contact Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 or Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan announced today that the Federal District Court in...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2013 | AWR, Lolo National Forest, lynx
by KPAX News MISSOULA — The District Court in Missoula denied the Forest Service’s motion to lift the injunction on the Colt Summit Project. The court had enjoined the project because the cumulative impacts analysis for lynx was inadequate. The Forest Service...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2013 | Associated Press, AWR, Lolo National Forest, lynx
by Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge says he will continue to block a collaborative forest-management project that includes logging 2,038 acres because the U.S. Forest Service did not submit a proper response to his order to analyze its effects on lynx...