by Mike Garrity | Feb 10, 2003 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, pine, wildlife
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936, (406) 721-5420 Dan Rohlf, (503) 768-6707 MISSOULA—A Montana-based conservation organization has filed a notice to sue the U.S. Forest Service for violations of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a related action, the...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 26, 2002 | AWR, bears, fish
by Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan Plum Creek Timber Company announced that it has plans to sell 20,000 acres in the Swan Valley. While it has indicated that it would sell 10,000 acres in grizzly bear linkage zones to the federal government it has yet to...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 25, 2002 | AWR, fish
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Attorney says government has not followed guidelines in the Endangered Species Act Two environmental groups that pushed — for seven years — for the federal government to protect bull trout as a threatened species filed suit Monday to...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 24, 2002 | AWR, BLM, cattle, Center for Biological Diversity, forest, Grand Canyon National Park, National Cattlemen's Beef Association
by Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News American taxpayers lose at least $128 million a year — and potentially up to $1 billion — subsidizing cattle grazing on millions of acres of public lands across the West, according to a new study commissioned by conservation...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 27, 2002 | AWR, hike, roads, Summer Field Trips
Western Montana/Northern Idaho Area Hikes Protect Roadless Areas July 27 Bob Clark with the Great Burn Study Group takes us into the Great Burn proposed wilderness area near Granite Peak to monitor for illegal off-road vehicle activity. The Great Burn is one of the...
by Mike Garrity | May 3, 2002 | AWR, North American Wilderness Conference
Save This Date For Wilderness! The North American Wilderness Conference, May 3-5, 2002 The North American Wilderness Conference 2002 will be held in Seattle, Washington at The Mountaineers Building. Preserving North American wild land and waters in the United States,...
