by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2009 | AWR, Glacier National Park, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
by George Ochenski One of Montana’s greatest assets is Glacier National Park, where the sheer beauty of the majestic landscape overwhelms visitors with stunning vistas of waterfalls, aquamarine lakes, hanging glaciers on towering peaks and abundant wildlife....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, wilderness
by Paul Edwards, Guest Columnist Well, finally – Sen. Jon Tester and a few strange bedfellows have floated a logging bill that everyone who works, has worked or hopes to work for one of four struggling lumber mills or one bankrupt cardboard box-maker can...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 5, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian KALISPELL – When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area’s wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. They were wrong....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, beehives, bison, buffalo, cattle, coyotes, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, sheep, wolves
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer When members of the Ayers family snapped photographs of a grizzly bear spotted on their ranch north of Fort Benton in the early summer, they were documenting the return of the species to its former home on the range. “I...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, deer, elk, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian October is always a lousy month to be a grizzly bear, and this October was worse than usual. Eight of the threatened bears were killed in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem last month, compared to the 10-year October average of...
