by Mike Garrity | Oct 3, 2024 | AWR, NREPA
Peering into the wildlife-rich habitat of the Buffalo Horn in the middle of the Gallatin Range. Photo courtesy George Wuerthner There’s a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 10, 2024 | Bitterroot National Forest, wolverines
Image by Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot National Forest. The Alliance for the...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 5, 2024 | AWR
Photo: USFS The great news is the Ashley National Forest has been saved from a “landscape scale” deforestation plan in which the Forest Service planned to bulldoze in skid trails to log and burn up to 147,000 acres (230 square miles!) of Inventoried...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 1, 2024 | Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest, Little Belt
Photo: USFS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed their lawsuit to stop the Horsefly project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in April 2021. The project called for cutting and burning trees on 10,343 acres, which is more...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 10, 2024 | elk, Grizzly, lynx
Photo: Ryan Hagerty USFWS A recent column by the Anaconda Sportsmen Club disparaged the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for challenging the illegal Pintler Face logging project in southwest Montana in federal court. What they failed to disclose to you is that federal...
