by Mike Garrity | Aug 31, 2009 | AWR, bears, fish, Flathead National Forest, logging, roads
by Sonya Angelica Diehn (CN) – A U.S. Forest Service logging plan will harm threatened grizzly bears in Montana’s Flathead National Forest, three environmental groups say. The logging plan reopens portions of a closed road and keeps intact 10 culverts that...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 26, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Jennifer McKee of the Missoulian State Bureau HELENA – Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Tuesday he’ll be disappointed if a federal judge stops Montana’s first-ever wolf hunting season – and hinted the state may sue to keep the hunt on. “If...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, roads, wilderness, wildlife
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian For more than three decades, millions of Montana federal acres have been de facto wilderness. Over the past few weeks, those slumbering lands have been shoved back into the spotlight. And last Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, fire, goshawk, Kootenai National Forest, logging, owls, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Jesse Froehling The Northern Goshawk, a bird the size of a crow, with salt and pepper plumage and a distinct light eyebrow, calls the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest home. For years, the U.S. Forest Service has used the goshawk as an “indicator...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, elk, lynx, moose, wildlife
by Eve Byron – Independent Record A federal court judge put a halt Wednesday to construction of a biathlon course near MacDonald Pass west of Helena. In issuing his summary judgment ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy said that an investigation of...
