by Mike Garrity | Sep 14, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
Editorial The gray wolf is a top predator, an essential part of the ecosystem, a symbol of the West. And it’s a symbol best displayed, not as pelts on a wall, but by packs in the wild. Exterminated like vermin, a bounty on their heads, the gray wolf was hunted...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 9, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wolves
MISSOULA, Montana, September 9, 2009 (ENS) – Late last night, a federal judge found that the federal government likely violated the law when it removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. In the same ruling, Chief Judge...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 31, 2009 | AWR, bears, fish, Flathead National Forest, logging, roads
by Sonya Angelica Diehn (CN) – A U.S. Forest Service logging plan will harm threatened grizzly bears in Montana’s Flathead National Forest, three environmental groups say. The logging plan reopens portions of a closed road and keeps intact 10 culverts that...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 26, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Jennifer McKee of the Missoulian State Bureau HELENA – Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Tuesday he’ll be disappointed if a federal judge stops Montana’s first-ever wolf hunting season – and hinted the state may sue to keep the hunt on. “If...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, roads, wilderness, wildlife
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian For more than three decades, millions of Montana federal acres have been de facto wilderness. Over the past few weeks, those slumbering lands have been shoved back into the spotlight. And last Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, fire, goshawk, Kootenai National Forest, logging, owls, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Jesse Froehling The Northern Goshawk, a bird the size of a crow, with salt and pepper plumage and a distinct light eyebrow, calls the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest home. For years, the U.S. Forest Service has used the goshawk as an “indicator...
