by Mike Garrity | Aug 26, 2010 | AWR, bears, beetles, elk, forest, goshawk, logging, lynx, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Helena, MT — The Helena National Forest announced on August 20 that they are pulling their decision to log the Elliston Face Fuels Reduction timber sale. The Alliance for the...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 6, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge on Thursday reinstated protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho, saying the government made a political decision in removing the protections from just two of the states where Northern Rocky Mountain wolves...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 6, 2010 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Eve Byron, Reporter A federal court judge in Missoula has put gray wolves back on the list of animals covered under the Endangered Species Act, stopping wolf hunts in Montana and Idaho. In his ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sided with a...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 29, 2010 | AWR, fish, lynx
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian Endangered lynx soon may have more room to roam, thanks to a ruling by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, who concluded that large swaths of Western habitat were wrongly excluded from protection. In particular, the court ruled that...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 29, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, lynx
by The Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is arbitrarily excluding “critical habitat” that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx, which were listed a decade ago as threatened. U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Jul 6, 2010 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging
by Canda Harbaugh, The Western News Federal District Court Judge Donald Molloy halted three Kootenai National Forest logging projects last week after ruling that the U.S. Forest Service failed to properly evaluate how the work would affect endangered grizzly bears....
