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 | Apr 4, 2003 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, Kootenai National Forest, pine
MISSOULA—In a letter to the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was withdrawing its decision to give a green light to the White Pine timber sale on the Kootenai National Forest. The Forest Service must now initiate “formal...
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 | Nov 25, 2000 | AWR, bears, roads
by Mike Bader, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies For the modern conservation era, barely a century old, the calendar changeover to the year 2000 represents an opportunity to consolidate momentum and establish lasting conservation policies to guide us...
