by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2013 | AWR, bears, bison, Yellowstone National Park
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Less than two months before bison must be pushed back into Yellowstone National Park, a judge has issued a ruling that will allow Montana authorities to use helicopters to haze the animals. On Tuesday in Missoula, U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Mar 22, 2013 | AWR, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, lynx, otters, wolverines, wolves
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Three conservation groups have sued to stop trapping in Montana lynx habitat. On Thursday, in a Missoula U.S. District Court, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Wild Swan and WildEarth Guardians filed a lawsuit...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 21, 2013 | AWR, bears, logging, lynx, wolverines
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer An environmental group is suing for a second time to stop a timber sale in the Hebgen Basin. On Wednesday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missoula...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 21, 2013 | AWR, lynx, trapping
contact Wendy Keefover, WildEarth Guardians, (303) 819.5229 or Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 or Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Montana’s regulations allow traps in occupied lynx...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 21, 2013 | Associated Press, AWR, lynx, trapping, wolves
by The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Three conservation groups are suing Montana in an attempt to force wildlife regulators to halt trapping in much of northwestern and southwestern Montana. They are seeking to end the trapping of wolves and fur-bearing...