by Mike Garrity | Oct 18, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, hunting, wolves
by The Associated Press BILLINGS — A federal appeals court on Tuesday turned down an emergency request by wildlife advocates seeking to stop gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies. But the court said judges will reconsider the issue in November. The ruling by the 9th...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 17, 2011 | AWR, hunting, wolves
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian A group of wolf advocates has requested an emergency halt to wolf hunting in the Rocky Mountains, less than a week before the general rifle season begins in Montana. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater and...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 17, 2011 | AWR, hunting, wolves
by Kim Murphy in Seattle Bow-and-arrow hunters already have shot 11 of Montana’s once-threatened wolf population since a controversial wolf hunt started at the beginning of September, while 60 wolves have been killed in neighboring Idaho. Now, big game...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 6, 2011 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, forest, lynx, opinion
by Michael Garrity, Guest column, Opinion How ironic is it that while the Missoulian was chastising the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for filing a lawsuit to protect the environment in its editorial last Sunday (Oct. 2) the Alliance, the Environmental Protection...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 6, 2011 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, opinion
by Michael Garrity, Guest column, Opinion How ironic is it that while the Missoulian was chastising the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for filing a lawsuit to protect the environment in its editorial last Sunday (Oct. 2) the Alliance, the Environmental Protection...