by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2025 | NREPA, roads
Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an estimated 58 million acres of public Forest Service land to road-building, resource extraction, and development. The...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 17, 2025 | bull trout
Photo by US FWS The Clark Fork River is federally-designated “critical habitat” for bull trout, a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act since 1999. The Upper Clark Fork is also part of the nation’s largest Superfund site, having suffered severe...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 12, 2025 | logging, Manti–La Sal National Forest
Photo: US Forest Service Alliance for the Wild Rockies relies on private donations from individuals who want to protect the landscapes of the Rockies from destructive projects. As in this case, we cannot always recover the money we paid to hire an attorney. So, if you...
by Mike Garrity | May 22, 2025 | Gravelly Mountains, Grizzly, grouse, lynx, sage grouse
Gravelly Mountain Range – U.S. Forest Service The U.S. Forest Service cancelled an illegal public land logging project due to a recently-filed lawsuit by Montana conservation group Alliance for the Wild Rockies on May 20th. The illegal logging was scheduled to...
by Mike Garrity | May 20, 2025 | lynx, Uintas-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, wolverines
Soapstone Basin in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest – Photo by Recreation.gov What happens when government agencies try to sidestep the law and exclude the public on major projects? Well, sometimes they get away with it — but not this time. The...