by Mike Garrity | May 9, 2023 | Kootenai National Forest
Old multistory forest slated for phased clearcut. Logging unit 72, Kootenai National Forest. Photo credit: Yaak Valley Forest Council By Dominick A. DellaSala, Ph. D, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage For four decades, I have been crisscrossing the globe inventorying...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 26, 2023 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly, Yaak
Photo credit: Glen Phillips One would have to be mighty gullible to believe the Forest Service’s claim that the Knotty Pine Project would benefit the declining population of Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears because the 5,000 acres of logging with massive new clearcuts would...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 17, 2023 | bison, buffalo
The images are sickening. More than a thousand huge gut piles litter the landscape just outside the borders of Yellowstone National Park from wild buffalo that were shot with high-powered rifles. Their only sin? They wandered over Yellowstone’s border into Montana...
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...
