by Erik Gillberg | Jul 10, 2026 | clearcut, logging, roads
Clearcut on Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest – Photo by Steve Platt The Wilderness Society, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and the Montana Wilderness Association, now rebranded “Wild Montana,” all claim they support the Roadless Rule and have been...
by Erik Gillberg | Jun 18, 2026 | clearcut, elk, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging
Clearcut Logging – photo by Steve Platt The Trump administration and some Democrats support “managing” our national forests like tree farms, not forest ecosystems, by calling for ever more logging and burning in a futile attempt to prevent wildfires....
by Erik Gillberg | Jun 4, 2026 | goshawk, Pinyon Jay, sage grouse
Pinyon Jay – Photo by Dave Menke USFWS The Interior Board of Land Appeals vacated the BLM’s decision authorizing cutting and burning 560,000 acres of mainly pinyon-juniper woodlands and sagebrush habitat in southwest Utah in response to an appeal by Alliance for...
by Erik Gillberg | Jun 2, 2026 | Grizzly
Grizzly Bear – Photo by Glenn Phillips Forest Service attempts to illegally shrink “secure habitat” in huge deforestation project spurring lawsuit to protect grizzly bears Grizzly bears were put on the Endangered Species List in 1975 — 51 years...
by Erik Gillberg | May 22, 2026 | AWR, Burnt Mountain, lynx
Burnt Mountain – Photo USFS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Custer Gallatin National Forest to stop them from sacrificing habitat for lynx, grizzly bear, elk and whitebark pine trees in the Greater...