by Mike Garrity | Mar 31, 2025 | AWR, NREPA
Custer-Gallatin National Forest next to Yellowstone National Park – photo by Custer-Gallatin National Forest On Thursday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act in the U.S. Senate...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 17, 2025 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines
Photo by Michael Hoyt Thanks to our threat to sue the Forest Service over using a categorical exclusion to avoid analyzing impacts on bull trout, grizzly bears, and lynx, a massive deforestation project in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley has been halted. The Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 27, 2025 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly
Photo by Glenn Phillips The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council in their challenge to the Black Ram project on the Kootenai National Forest in Montana. The Ninth Circuit decision on February...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 27, 2025 | logging, USFS
Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. Photo by Vicki Anfinson If Trump and Musk really want to cut the Forest Service’s budget they need to go where the money is actually being wasted. That would be the Forest Service’s enormously subsidized logging projects that...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 22, 2025 | Bears Ears, La Sal Forest, Manti-La Sal National Forest, Pinyon Jay
Pinyon Jay – NPS/Sally King The Manti–La Sal National Forest stretches from central Utah to southeastern Utah and into Colorado. The 1,413,111-acre forest contains the La Sal Mountains, which are the second highest mountain range in Utah, and parts of the forest...
