by Mike Garrity | Dec 6, 2003 | AWR, forest, logging, Lolo National Forest, roads, wilderness
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has slapped down the Lolo National Forest’s plan for logging in areas burned during the 2000 wildfire season, saying the Forest Service did not take “the necessary hard look” at...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 21, 2003 | AWR, bears, Gallatin National Forest, logging
contacts Michael Garrity, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Sara Johnson, Native Ecosystems Council, (406) 285-3611 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council and The Ecology Center announced today that they appealed the Windmill...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 20, 2003 | AWR, bears, Gallatin National Forest, logging
by Scott McMillion, scottm@dailychronicle.com LIVINGSTON — Environmental groups have appealed the Windmill timber sale in the Mill Creek Drainage south of here, pointing out the U.S. Forest Service says it could lose $376,000 on the sale. The sale was originally...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2003 | AWR, bears, Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, Lolo National Forest, Yellowstone National Park
by Sherry Devlin, The Missoulian Environmentalists have asked U.S. District Judge Don Molloy to force the Forest Service to make good on its promise to provide more habitat protection for grizzly bears in the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirk mountains. In a motion filed with...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2003 | AWR, bears, forest, roads
from staff and wire reports MISSOULA — Conservationists are accusing the Forest Service of dragging its feet on a legal promise to start removing forest roads to help save endangered grizzly bears in the Idaho Panhandle and northwestern Montana. “We thought we...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 21, 2003 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, forest
by Perry Backus, The Montana Standard DILLON — The Forest Service and two environmental groups evidently don’t see eye to eye on a proposal to work on portions of the Mussigbrod and Middle Fork fires that burned in 2000. And now it’s going to be up to a...
