by Erik Gillberg | May 5, 2026 | Cooke City, Whitebark Pine
Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) – Photo by Jen Hooke National Park Service Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Dr. Jesse Logan, Native Ecosystems Council, and the Gallatin Wildlife Association secured another significant win for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 29, 2026 | Clark's Nutcracker, goshawk, Grizzly, Hyalite Canyon, red squirrel, Whitebark Pine
Hyalite Canyon – Photo USFS The Forest Service recently issued its decision authorizing yet another old growth logging project on Bozeman’s doorstep in Hyalite Canyon. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit to challenge the Forest Service’s plan...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 2, 2026 | Flathead National Forest, lynx, Tally Lake
Lynx by Ryan Pennesi – U.S. Forest Service Federal Judge halts huge Forest Service clearcutting project west of Whitefish, Montana The primary reason we took the U.S. Forest Service to court — and won — over the Round Star Logging Project is because...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 1, 2026 | AWR, Bitterroot Mountains, Grizzly
Photo: Frank van Manen – USGS On March 31, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, prevailed in their lawsuit to stop a logging and road-building project on public lands in the Sapphire Mountains of the Bitterroot Valley because the...
by Erik Gillberg | Mar 17, 2026 | Grizzly, lynx
Lynx – Photo by Sara German – USFWS The Cooke City area of Montana has one of the healthiest whitebark pine forests in the region. Yet now, the Forest Service wants to apply an unscientific method of logging across more than 2,000 acres of these whitebark...
