by Mike Garrity | Aug 25, 2025 | bull trout
Bull Trout by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and clearcut some of...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 19, 2025 | bull trout
Dead fish from a creek earlier this summer when temperatures in Montana hit triple digits. (Photo by Larry Campbelli). Anyone who drives around the state of Montana right now can see one unassailable truth: our state’ renowned rivers and the prized fish which inhabit...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 7, 2025 | wolves
Photo by Gary Kramer USFWS In an amazing court victory for wild wolves and advocates who tirelessly speak on their behalf, the federal district court in Missoula, Montana ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 29, 2025 | Fisher, Flathead National Forest, goshawk, Grizzly, owls, woodpeckers
Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alliance for the Wild Rockies sues Flathead Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop another massive clearcutting project west of Whitefish, Montana Four conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies,...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 17, 2025 | sage grouse
Photo by USFWS The Forest Service authorized a Special Use Permit in March to allow a private company to clear-cut and bulldoze a 50-foot wide, 18.2-mile-long corridor through six National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas for construction of a gas pipeline from...