by Mike Garrity | Nov 18, 2014 | AWR, lynx, Yellowstone National Park
Four conservation groups filed suit Monday in Missoula federal court, challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of critical Canada lynx habitat in the lower 48 states. The national Sierra Club, Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Wild, Montana-based...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 17, 2014 | AWR, logging, lynx, Yellowstone National Park
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Wildlife advocates Monday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a third time for limiting the amount of habitat that would be protected for lynx. The groups — the Sierra Club, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Rocky...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 9, 2014 | AWR, bears, logging, lynx
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record While many people may decry litigious environmental groups and point fingers at judges that rule in the groups’ favor, it’s hard to deny that they have often prevailed in court, and the federal government has been found in...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 26, 2014 | AWR, opinion, timber
by Michael Garrity, Opinion The IR’s recent article on citizen enforcement of natural resource laws would have been more informative for readers had it concentrated on why the Forest Service keeps losing lawsuits over and over for the same reasons instead of the...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 13, 2014 | AWR, Cabin Gulch, Helena National Forest, logging, timber
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies The Oct. 1 article in the IR about the Cabin Gulch logging project reports a claim by the manager of the RY Timber mill in Townsend that the Forest Service makes money on logging. However,...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 26, 2014 | AWR, logging, roads, Swan Valley
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Federal District Court in Missoula ruled yesterday for four conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, and Native...