by Mike Garrity | Apr 28, 2020 | AWR
Hello. It’s no great secret that the remaining tracts of roadless public lands are threatened every day by logging, grazing, mining, oil and gas drilling and the road-building to support those extractive industries. The effects are likewise no mystery. The wildlife...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 27, 2019 | AWR
By Mike Garrity In a recent article the Bureau of Land Management, The Nature Conservancy, and local ranchers claimed that removing conifers, mainly juniper trees, on public lands increases and improves habitat for sage grouse, big game, and other species that rely on...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 17, 2019 | AWR
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court yesterday challenging the Mission Restoration Project in the Methow Valley Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest west of Twisp, Washington. The Methow Valley is a...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 22, 2019 | AWR
DONATE NOW Inspired by Yellowstone grizzly bear scientists Frank and John Craighead, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies formed in 1988 to protect the whole ecosystems and connecting wildlife corridors that comprise the Wild Rockies bioregion. Our mission is to protect...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 14, 2019 | AWR
A Landscape Lewis and Clark Would Recognize Is Now Under Threat Logging, mining and development loom over the Northern Rockies. By Mike Garrity and Carole King Mr. Garrity, a fifth-generation Montanan, is the executive director of Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Ms....
by Mike Garrity | Jul 26, 2018 | AWR
Calling it “one of the worst logging projects in decades,” Mike Garrity, Executive Director for the Alliance for the Wild Rockies announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in the Alliance’s favor in its legal challenge to the East...