by Erik Gillberg | Feb 27, 2025 | logging, USFS
Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. Photo by Vicki Anfinson If Trump and Musk really want to cut the Forest Service’s budget they need to go where the money is actually being wasted. That would be the Forest Service’s enormously subsidized logging projects that...
by Erik Gillberg | Feb 22, 2025 | Bears Ears, La Sal Forest, Manti-La Sal National Forest, Pinyon Jay
Pinyon Jay – NPS/Sally King The Manti–La Sal National Forest stretches from central Utah to southeastern Utah and into Colorado. The 1,413,111-acre forest contains the La Sal Mountains, which are the second highest mountain range in Utah, and parts of the forest...
by Erik Gillberg | Feb 21, 2025 | goshawk
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana against a road-building and commercial logging project on public lands in the Big Belt Mountains of Montana. The...
by Erik Gillberg | Jan 20, 2025 | bison
Photo by the National Park Service One might think that the National Park Service and the State of Montana, the two entities charged with stewardship of American bison, our national mammal, could do a better job. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Council on...
by Erik Gillberg | Jan 13, 2025 | lynx
Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service If anyone wonders why we’re taking the Forest Service to court over the Round Star logging project, there is one primary reason: lynx critical habitat is the worst place for clearcuts. The surest way to drive lynx to extinction...
