by Mike Garrity | Apr 5, 2016 | AWR, wolverines
MATHEW BROWN Associated Press View the article here. BILLINGS — The Obama administration brushed over the threat that climate change poses to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator also known as the “mountain...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 11, 2016 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging
By Mike Garrity The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit against Leann Marten, the Regional Forester of the Forest Service in Federal District Court in Missoula, after discovering a secret logging project, named Moosehorn Ditch...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 29, 2016 | AWR, bears, lynx, wolverines
Four conservation groups filed a lawsuit in 2013 claiming the U.S. Forest Service needed to analyze impacts on species, habitat BY DILLON TABISH Originally published in the Flathead Beacon here. The Nature Conservancy has canceled plans to harvest timber on a large...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 12, 2016 | AWR, bears
By PHILIP A. JANQUART Originally published by Courthouse News Service. MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) – An isolated remnant of America’s top predator, the grizzly bear, still survives in northwest Montana, but faces extinction because the secretary of the interior...
by Mike Garrity | May 26, 2015 | AWR, fish
Click here to read an article by Michael Wright (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) about successful efforts to implement new trapping restrictions. “We didn’t get everything we wanted, but it’s a good compromise,” said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the...
by Mike Garrity | May 12, 2015 | AWR, forest, logging
A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in federal court Monday challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to authorize a large logging, burning, and road-building project in rare habitat for threatened lynx and grizzly bears on public lands in...
