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...
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...
