by Mike Garrity | Aug 6, 2016 | AWR
by Laura Lundquist Originally published here. A federal judge halted a timber project Friday because the Forest Service might have overstepped its bounds in bypassing the public process. On Friday, Missoula federal District Judge Donald Molloy put a hold on the...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 14, 2016 | AWR
By Mike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406-459-5936 Bull trout are already extinct in California, inhabit only one stream system in Nevada, and are “at high risk of extinction in Oregon, Washington, and parts of Idaho” according to the U.S.D.A.’s Natural...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 1, 2016 | AWR, NREPA
By Michael Garrity Originally published in The Missoulian here. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, which lives up to its name, would protect the best of the last intact ecosystems and wildlands in the Rockies. For the first time, it has been introduced in...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 11, 2016 | AWR, Legislation, NREPA
By Michael Wright – Chronicle Staff Writer Originally published here. An environmental group’s proposal to designate roadless areas in the western United States as wilderness has been introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time after more than two decades...
by Mike Garrity | May 23, 2016 | AWR, logging
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer More waiting is in store on a logging project south of Bozeman. A Ninth Circuit Court judge ordered this week that an existing stay on the case will continue until the U.S. Supreme Court decides what to do with a separate case...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 20, 2016 | AWR, bull trout
By John S. Adams – Editor-in-Chief, MTFP.org Originally published here by Montana Free Press. Two Montana conservation groups are suing the federal government alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to recover endangered bull trout is inadequate and...
