by Mike Garrity | Apr 16, 2009 | AWR, forest, roads, wilderness, wildlife
Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives 1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 April 16, 2009 Dear Representative Rahall and Representative Grijalva: H.R. 980, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Act (NREPA) was originally...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 1, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
contacts Jenny Harbine, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Washington, D.C. – An advance copy of the Federal Register – released today – contains a final version of the...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 30, 2009 | AWR, fish, logging, mining
PORTLAND – The Obama administration won’t defend the Bush administration’s cuts to habitat protections for the threatened bull trout, whose need for cold, clean water can stand in the way of logging and mining on national forests. Conservation groups...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2009 | AWR, fish, wildlife
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will rework its September 2005 critical habitat designation for threatened Columbia and Klamath river bull trout stocks. A lawsuit challenging the legality of the designation was filed in U.S. District Court in Portland in...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 14, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, bobcats, Lewis and Clark National Forest, lynx
by Eve Byron Nine environmental groups notified the Department of the Interior Friday that they plan to file a lawsuit over the most recent designation of critical habitat for Canada lynx. Generally speaking, the groups don’t believe that enough land was...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 6, 2009 | AWR, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Jenny Harbine, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Suzanne Asha Stone, Defenders of Wildlife, (208) 861-4655 Louisa Willcox, Natural Resources Defense Council, (406) 222-9561 Melanie...
