by Mike Garrity | Aug 6, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge on Thursday reinstated protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho, saying the government made a political decision in removing the protections from just two of the states where Northern Rocky Mountain wolves...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 29, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, lynx
by The Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is arbitrarily excluding “critical habitat” that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx, which were listed a decade ago as threatened. U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Jun 26, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging
by Matt Volz, Associated Press A federal appeals court has blocked the U.S. Forest Service from logging trees on more than 1,600 acres of burned forest in southwestern Montana, but the agency says most of the timber already has been harvested. The 9th U.S. Circuit...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 11, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest
by The Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Forest Service from starting three timber projects in a northwestern Montana forest, saying the work could harm the grizzly bear population there. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 8, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA – A U.S. Forest Service plan to spray herbicide from helicopters over the Kootenai National Forest does not adequately protect dozens of grizzly bears and could drive them from their habitat, a federal judge has ruled. U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, fish, Flathead National Forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Threatened bull trout have won a huge increase in the amount of critical habitat that now qualifies for federal oversight. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed Bush administration policy and published new rules to...
