by Mike Garrity | Oct 11, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Associated Press BILLINGS — A coalition of groups trying to halt wolverine trapping in Montana filed a lawsuit Thursday that aims to provide new protections for an animal scientists warn will be imperiled by climate change in coming decades. Montana is the only...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 18, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, Gallatin National Forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Little Belt Mountain, logging
by Associated Press GREAT FALLS — Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service arguing the agency should have completed a more thorough environmental review of a plan to cut down trees killed by mountain pine beetles in the Little Belt...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 13, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, fish, goshawk, logging, lynx, Nez Perce National Forest
by The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a planned logging project in north-central Idaho because they contend the logging will violate the Endangered Species Act. Alliance for the Wild Rockies and...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 28, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Colt Summit Project, fish, forest, logging, Lolo National Forest, lynx
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (WTW) — Conservation groups suing to block a logging project in a western Montana have found an unlikely opponent: other conservation groups. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and three other conservation groups filed a...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 11, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Forest Service has asked a judge to lift his block of a logging project near an endangered grizzly population in northwestern Montana, saying a new analysis shows bears don’t frequent that area of the Kootenai...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, wolves
by Matthew Brown, Associated Press, from Billings, Montana (AP) PASADENA, Calif. — Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its...
