by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2023 | Holland Lake
Photograph Source: Forest Service Northern Region – Public Domain Holland Lake in the pristine Seeley-Swan Valley in western Montana provides critical habitat for threatened bull trout and surrounding areas are home to lynx, grizzly bears, elk, and wolverines. Due to...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 8, 2023 | bison
Over 1,600 Yellowstone bison have been killed or removed from the population. GARDINER, MT: Yellowstone National Park released the latest report of bison management operations on the Interagency Bison Management Plan website (IBMP.info) on Friday, March 3rd. The...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 10, 2023 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly
Photo: Glen Phillips There’s no other way to put it, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population is going downhill fast – which is the opposite of the agency’s legal mandate to recover, not extinguish, endangered species. In 2018 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service counted...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 29, 2022 | bull trout
Bull trout photo (Associated Press) Thanks to our lawsuit, the Forest Service was forced to withdraw a huge logging and road bulldozing project in Boise’s most popular recreation area a few days ago. The groups contended the agency did not comply with the Endangered...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 13, 2022 | bull trout, Garnet Mountains, Grizzly, lynx
It’s incredibly disappointing, but the Bureau of Land Management is no better under Tracy Stone-Manning’s leadership than under Trump. While the examples pile up nationally, here in Stone-Manning’s home state the agency is attempting to dodge required public review...
