by Mike Garrity | Jul 31, 2020 | Finch
Our nation is in a perilous place when federal agencies refuse to comply with federal court orders. Yet, that’s just what Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did in its rush to destroy sagebrush, juniper, and limber pine habitat in the Iron Mask area of Montana’s...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2020 | Grizzly
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling today on the litigation over the 2018 de-listing of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population under the Endangered Species Act, affirming a District Court order that blocked the de-listing of the great bears and kept...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 6, 2020 | Grizzly
There was never any scientifically-sound reason to clearcut and bulldoze new logging roads into the roadless lands tucked along the Continental Divide in Helena, Montana’s backyard. But Trump’s Forest Service is on a cut and run tear and decided to do it anyway...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 1, 2020 | Steelhead
The Forest Service calls logging ‘restorative.’ Is smothering steelhead trout eggs with sediment restorative? Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Clearwater filed a lawsuit this week against the Trump administration’s U.S. Forest Service and...
