by Mike Garrity | Oct 22, 1999 | AWR, Clark Fork River, fish, Yellowstone National Park
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Lawsuit stops work on pipeline replacement Arguing that there was too little environmental review or public notice, environmentalists won a court order on Friday stopping the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. from excavating a 6-foot-deep...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 10, 1999 | AWR, fish
A new law review article details the pattern of delay used by the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior in an attempt to prevent a listing of the bull trout. Listing the Bull Trout Under the Endangered Species Act: The Passive-Aggressive...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 18, 1999 | AWR, bears, forest, logging, roads, Yellowstone National Park
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Republican says her party is off base on environment Martha Marks is a Republican and an environmentalist, and she doesn’t understand why the Grand Old Party isn’t greener. Or why people keep asking her when she’s...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 9, 1999 | AWR, forest, logging, Nez Perce Fork, roads
AWR Release Last June, District Ranger Dave Campbell authorized a large scale project in the Nez Perce Fork drainage on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. This decision affected a project area of 92,000 acres, and would have allowed logging within the...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 29, 1999 | Associated Press, AWR, forest, wilderness
The Associated Press Most people living in the West believe not enough national forest land has been designated as wilderness, according to a poll commissioned by three conservation organizations. The poll, conducted by the Mellman Group Inc. and released Tuesday,...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 13, 1999 | AWR, NREPA Lobby Week
The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), H.R. 488, has experienced a swelling of support recently as activists from around the country converged on Washington, D.C. for a week long lobby effort sponsored by AWR, The Sierra Club, and Idaho Conservation...