by Mike Garrity | Feb 17, 2011 | AWR, cattle, elk, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, The Independent Record In a bold move against federal authority of gray wolves in Montana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer has called for entire packs to be killed in the Bitterroot Valley to protect the dwindling elk population there, and has directed Montana...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 7, 2011 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, hunting, logging, lynx, owls, roads, squirrels
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Butte, MT — Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court yesterday against the U.S. Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 27, 2011 | AWR, logging
A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week on a Big Hole Valley timber sale is being hailed by environmental groups as a precedent-setting decision. Susan Brown, a staff attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center, said the ruling is important...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 26, 2011 | AWR, forest, logging, roads
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Susan Jane Brown, Western Environmental Law Center (503) 914-1323 A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week has set a precedent by defining at what point...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 25, 2011 | AWR, California, logging, whales
by Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire A federal appeals court today rejected a government request that it rehear a case that set a precedent on how to interpret a 2008 Supreme Court ruling that seemed to limit the ability of environmental groups to put a stop to certain...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 18, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, bobcats, forest, Gallatin National Forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Lolo National Forest, lynx
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Critical habitat for Canada lynx will be re-evaluated by the federal government in three states, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service withdrew its appeal of a ruling by a federal court judge in Missoula. U.S. District Court Judge...
