by Mike Garrity | Sep 24, 2020 | WILDFIRE
Image: Cleacut in West Fork of the Crooked River Roadless area in Idaho. Photo: Bryce Poplawski In the middle of yet another big wildfire seasons, some reporters finally listened to fire scientists when they quoted people like Dr. Higuera, an associate professor of...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 8, 2020 | Sapphire Mountains
The Bitterroot National Forest formally withdrew its decision authorizing the Gold Butterfly Project after the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Bitterroot filed a lawsuit challenging the project this summer. The Gold Butterfly logging project was...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 17, 2020 | Payette Forest
Two years ago, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Lost Creek-Boulder Creek Project in Idaho violated the Payette National Forest Plan and the National Forest Management Act. President Donald Trump’s lawless Forest Service disregarded the court’s decision...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 17, 2020 | bull trout
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies defeated the Trump administration yet again this month when a federal judge ruled against its request to dismiss our case against the Bureau of Reclamation’s illegal killing of hundreds of threatened bull trout each year near Glacier...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 31, 2020 | Finch
Our nation is in a perilous place when federal agencies refuse to comply with federal court orders. Yet, that’s just what Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did in its rush to destroy sagebrush, juniper, and limber pine habitat in the Iron Mask area of Montana’s...
