by Mike Garrity | Mar 29, 2011 | AWR, forest, logging
by Daniel Person and Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writers At her home outside Three Forks last week, Sara Johnson was printing out plans for a federal logging project in South Dakota’s Black Hills. If things go the way they often do, Johnson will submit...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 29, 2011 | AWR, bison, BLM, buffalo, fish, forest, University of Montana, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer In the realm of green groups, there are no widgets for sale. Donors receive no bells or whistles to take home and show for their money. There are only ideas, projects, promises of action, a hope and a cause. Still, that’s...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 28, 2011 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer After years of legal gridlock, conservation groups and the U.S. Department of Interior Friday reached an agreement on gray wolf management that, if approved, would remove federal protection for the animals in Montana and Idaho....
by Mike Garrity | Mar 28, 2011 | AWR, wolves
by Daniel Person, Chronicle Staff Writer Not mincing words, Steve Kelly described the Alliance for the Wild Rockies approach to environmentalism in terms of war. “It’s been a battle for policy,” said Kelly, of Bozeman, one of the group’s...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 22, 2011 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Kootenai National Forest has dropped an appeal of a federal court ruling that halted three planned road-building and logging projects on public land in occupied habitat for...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 13, 2011 | AWR, wolves
by Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 During his 2006 campaign against then-Sen. Conrad Burns, candidate Jon Tester made many promises. Among them, Tester promised he wouldn’t use “riders,” which are...