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...
by Erik Gillberg | Mar 9, 2026 | Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Glacier National Park, lynx
Canadian Lynx By Keith Williams USFWS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Native Ecosystems Council, and Council on Fish & Wildlife, sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service for removing wildlife protections...
by Erik Gillberg | Feb 5, 2026 | bull trout, Jarbridge River
Bull Trout – Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic & Wade Fredenberg/USFWS Bull trout were listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act in 1999 after the Alliance for the Wild Rockies successfully sued the Fish and Wildlife...
by Erik Gillberg | Jan 26, 2026 | wolverines
Photo by Steve Kroschel – Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Wolverines in the lower 48 States were trapped, hunted, and poisoned to near extinction in the late 1800s and early 1900s and have not recovered, just the opposite in fact. It took court...
