by Mike Garrity | Feb 29, 2012 | AWR, bears, fish, logging, Lolo National Forest, lynx, roads, wildlife
by Eve Byron, Independent Record A proposed project that includes logging, roadwork and weed spraying on national forest land north of Seeley Lake is pitting a wide-ranging array of organizations against four environmental groups that filed a lawsuit opposing the...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 28, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Colt Summit Project, fish, forest, logging, Lolo National Forest, lynx
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (WTW) — Conservation groups suing to block a logging project in a western Montana have found an unlikely opponent: other conservation groups. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and three other conservation groups filed a...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 28, 2012 | AWR, bears, elk, logging, lynx, pine, roads
by Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over a logging and habitat improvement project proposed on 3,000 acres of Mount Fleecer. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed suit in...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 22, 2012 | AWR, bears, beetles, elk, goshawk, lynx, owls, squirrels
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Butte, MT — Calling it “one of the most corrupt logging projects ever proposed in Montana,” Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies,...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 11, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Forest Service has asked a judge to lift his block of a logging project near an endangered grizzly population in northwestern Montana, saying a new analysis shows bears don’t frequent that area of the Kootenai...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2011 | AWR, bears, Helena National Forest, logging, lynx, opinion, roads, wildlife
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, IR Your Turn A Nov. 1 article in the Independent Record reported that a “collaborative” group developed and submitted to the Forest Service a proposal to log thousands of acres in and around an inventoried roadless area...