by Mike Garrity | Mar 20, 2005 | AWR, BLM
by Tony Tweedale Everyone acknowledges that invasive plants (“weeds”) can harm native ecosystems. But land stewards as the USFS, and BLM seem to see only the invasives, and disregard a crucial variable: something has to change for an invasive to become...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 20, 2005 | AWR, fish
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936 Mike Bader, (406) 721-4835 Arlene Montgomery, (406) 886-2011 Jack R. Tuholske, (406) 721-6986 Threats Remain, Elimination of Critical Habitat a Serious Blow to Recovery MISSOULA—A new report recently submitted to the U.S. Fish...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 15, 2004 | AWR, fish, logging
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936 Mike Bader, (406) 721-4835 Jack Tuholske, (406) 721-6986 MISSOULA—The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan conservation organizations filed suit today in Federal Court in Portland, Oregon challenging the...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 19, 2004 | AWR, bears, goshawk, lynx, wildlife
In recognition of increasing biological evidence, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies board of directors recently expanded AWR’s active area of concern in the greater Wild Rockies to the Uinta and Wasatch Mountain Ranges in Utah and south into the Dixie National...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 12, 2004 | AWR, bears, goshawk, logging, lynx, owls, Targhee National Forest, wolverines, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
BOISE—Conservation groups announce today that U.S. District Court of Idaho, Judge B. Lynn Winmill granted a preliminary injunction stopping the McGarry Timber sale in the Targhee National Forest, stating that the plaintiffs will likely prevail on its claim that the...