by Mike Garrity | Jun 28, 2023 | bears, Grizzly, logging
Photo: Glen Phillips Thanks to a successful court challenge by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, over 10,000 acres of grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Montana will not be decimated by commercial logging. In late June, our lawsuit in a federal district court in...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 2, 2021 | bears, Grizzly, roads
Photo by Glenn Phillips, www.glennphillipsphoto.com. Misclassified roads in our national forests probably pose the most imminent threat to grizzly habitat today — and today there are many more such roads than there were in 1993. Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 14, 2018 | bears, Grizzly
Originally published here… A federal judge has blocked the start of grizzly bear hunting seasons for another two weeks while he finishes a ruling on the legality of ending Endangered Species Act protection for bears around Yellowstone National Park. “There...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 20, 2017 | AWR, bears, elk, lynx
Two conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit in Federal District Court in Missoula Friday challenging the Stonewall Vegetation Project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest about 4 miles northwest of Lincoln,...
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...
