by Mike Garrity | Nov 27, 2019 | bull trout
See coverage of this press release here: Conservation groups convince feds to better protect bull trout … without lawsuits Press Release November 23, 2019 Contact: Mike Garrity Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406 459-5936 The U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2019 | elk
Originally published in the Idaho State Journal here. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it has to log and burn thousands of acres in Idaho’s Pleasantview Mountains, west of Malad, Idaho, to improve aspen stands and habitat for mule deer and elk. To do so, the...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 22, 2019 | bull trout
Orginally published on Counterpunch.org here. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has mounted a legal challenge against the Mission Restoration Project on National Forest lands in the Methow Valley west of Twisp, Washington. This pristine, remote rural area is...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 21, 2019 | Grizzly
“In a nutshell,” said Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, “the Forest Service contended that if it puts a berm on an existing road it’s considered effectively closed to motorized traffic. We showed the court that people were driving...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 17, 2019 | AWR
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court yesterday challenging the Mission Restoration Project in the Methow Valley Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest west of Twisp, Washington. The Methow Valley is a...