by Mike Garrity | Jul 1, 2014 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest
by Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge has blocked a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest over concerns that roads built for the project may harm a threatened population of grizzly bears. In approving the 36,600-acre Pilgrim project, the U.S. Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2014 | Associated Press, AWR, bears
by The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group is suing the federal government for failing to reclassify a small population of grizzly bears as endangered. The estimated 42 Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears in northwestern Montana are considered a...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2014 | AWR, bears
by Jimm Mann, The Daily Inter Lake The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missoula seeking to “uplist” the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population from “threatened” to “endangered.” The group is...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 22, 2014 | AWR, bears
by Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho, April 22 (Reuters) – Federal protection status for a population of grizzly bears facing extinction in the mountains of Idaho and northwest Montana should be raised to endangered from threatened, environmentalists said in a...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 11, 2014 | AWR, bears
Intensive government DNA hair snag survey only finds 38 individual bears—at least 100 bears needed for a viable population Group Sues to have Cabinet Bears ‘Uplisted’ Group Sues to Reclassify Montana Bear Population Group Sues U.S. for Stronger Idaho, Montana Grizzly...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 11, 2014 | AWR, bears
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