by Mike Garrity | May 13, 2013 | AWR, bears, bison, buffalo
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed an Emergency Motion with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday seeking a federal injunction to halt...
by Mike Garrity | May 7, 2013 | AWR, wolverines
by Eve Byron, Independent Record A proposed vegetation project three miles north of Lincoln has been reduced by about 2,000 acres, but it still is raising some eyebrows. Amber Kamps, the Lincoln District ranger, said they’ve cut back on some of the proposed...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2013 | AWR, BLM, wildlife
by Francis Davis of The Montana Standard The U.S. Forest Service will withdraw its original plans and prepare a new analysis on a 3,400-acre thinning project in the east Pioneer Mountains near Wise River. Two environmental groups had sued the agency to stop the...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2013 | Associated Press, AWR, bears
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group is suing the federal government for failing to reclassify a small population of grizzly bears as endangered. The estimated 42 Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears in northwestern Montana are considered a threatened species. The U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Apr 19, 2013 | AWR, bison, buffalo
by Katherine Mozzone, KTVM Reporter BOZEMAN, Mont. — Wildlife advocates are outraged over a bison shot in a wildlife management area in the Paradise Valley, but Department of Livestock leaders say the bison was out of the tolerance area and had to be shot. Folks with...
