by Erik Gillberg | 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 Erik Gillberg | Apr 26, 2024 | AWR
Big Belt mountains looking northeast from just outside Helena, Montana. Photo: Montanabw, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and its co-Plaintiff, Native Ecosystems Council, have prevailed in stopping the Middleman project in Montana’s Big Belt Mountains,...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 8, 2024 | AWR, wolves
Let’s get right to the point, the end goal of the wolf ‘management plans’ in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming is to once again exterminate them from the Northern Rockies. They think the only good wolf is a dead wolf. Wolves need your help. The wolf...
by Erik Gillberg | Dec 31, 2023 | AWR
Photo: Glen Phillips Thank you all for helping us make a difference this year. Here’s to more in 2024! 1) Wolverines listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act after 20-year conservation effort. 2) Federal Court – Feds Must Proceed with Grizzly...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 20, 2023 | AWR
Pilot Peak, Beartooth Range, Greater Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. BY MICHELLE RENEE MATISONS If ever there is a time for cooperative ecological action it is now, and there are plenty of opportunities for engagement in the West. The Rocky Mountain system/...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 7, 2023 | AWR, bull trout, Grizzly
Photo: Park Service For decades the Forest Service has gotten away with calling hundreds, if not thousands, of roads on national forests “closed” when they’re not. As is well known and documented, illegal use of the roads continues when people drive around the fences,...
