by Mike Garrity | Oct 6, 2021 | clearcut
Clearcut, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In so many ways the future hangs in the balance as Congress debates the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill and $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Although encouraging the use of more electric...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 16, 2021 | Blackhall Meadows, clearcut
Photo: Vicki Anfinson The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is putting up a billboard in Helena with this picture of a massive Forest Service clearcut along the trail to Blackhall Meadows in the Helena National Forest. The Forest Service claimed this utter destruction...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 2, 2021 | bears, Grizzly, roads
Photo by Glenn Phillips, www.glennphillipsphoto.com. Misclassified roads in our national forests probably pose the most imminent threat to grizzly habitat today — and today there are many more such roads than there were in 1993. Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2021 | lynx
Canada lynx, recognized by its large, black ear tufts, is considered recovered and may be removed from the list of endangered and threatened species. Photo courtesy of Eric Kilby/Creative Commons. What do you do when the Forest Service ignores federal court orders,...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 21, 2021 | Invasive species
Photo: N. Herbert NPS Two weeks ago, Laurie Brown, a licensed nurse practitioner, called the Alliance for the Wild Rockies out of concern for the Game Creek watershed. She lives just south of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and gets her drinking water from a well adjacent to...
