by Mike Garrity | Jun 11, 2016 | AWR, Legislation, NREPA
By Michael Wright – Chronicle Staff Writer Originally published here. An environmental group’s proposal to designate roadless areas in the western United States as wilderness has been introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time after more than two decades...
by Mike Garrity | May 23, 2016 | AWR, logging
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer More waiting is in store on a logging project south of Bozeman. A Ninth Circuit Court judge ordered this week that an existing stay on the case will continue until the U.S. Supreme Court decides what to do with a separate case...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 20, 2016 | AWR, bull trout
By John S. Adams – Editor-in-Chief, MTFP.org Originally published here by Montana Free Press. Two Montana conservation groups are suing the federal government alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to recover endangered bull trout is inadequate and...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 5, 2016 | AWR, wolverines
MATHEW BROWN Associated Press View the article here. BILLINGS — The Obama administration brushed over the threat that climate change poses to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator also known as the “mountain...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 11, 2016 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging
By Mike Garrity The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit against Leann Marten, the Regional Forester of the Forest Service in Federal District Court in Missoula, after discovering a secret logging project, named Moosehorn Ditch...