by Erik Gillberg | Apr 1, 2026 | AWR, Bitterroot Mountains, Grizzly
Photo: Frank van Manen – USGS On March 31, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, prevailed in their lawsuit to stop a logging and road-building project on public lands in the Sapphire Mountains of the Bitterroot Valley because the...
by Erik Gillberg | Dec 16, 2025 | AWR, Grizzly, lynx, wolverines, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
Photo by National Park Service For grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, wolverine, and bison there is no “boundary” around Yellowstone National Park. The forests in this area — the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — extend beyond Yellowstone Park’s boundaries and...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 30, 2025 | AWR
Alliance for the Wild Rockies 2025 Annual Report Protecting the Wild Rockies. Holding the Line. Restoring Balance. Impact Period: November 2024 – November 2025 Message from the Executive Director In 2025, thanks to your support, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies made...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 3, 2025 | AWR
In 2025 the Alliance for the Wild Rockies protected 2,672 square miles — 1.7 MILLION acres — of wildlife habitat on National Forests with our victories in court. No other environmental group came even close to protecting this much habitat. We did this by...
by Erik Gillberg | Oct 29, 2025 | AWR, bison
Photo: National Park Service With 2.1 million cattle in Montana, one might expect Governor Gianforte and our congressional delegation to know where cattle actually get brucellosis. But unfortunately, the governor and delegation appear locked into outdated,...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 6, 2025 | AWR, Grizzly, Selkirk
Photo by Glenn Phillips It took the Alliance for the Wild Rockies almost six years of litigation fighting the US Forest Service through both the Trump and Biden administrations to try and save what’s left of the imperiled grizzly bear population in Northern...
