by Mike Garrity | Sep 21, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Boise National Forest, Custer National Forest, Gallatin National Forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Last week the Forest Service withdrew its decision to go forward with the Whitetail Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project on the Custer National Forest in Montana. Two local...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, roads, wilderness, wildlife
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian For more than three decades, millions of Montana federal acres have been de facto wilderness. Over the past few weeks, those slumbering lands have been shoved back into the spotlight. And last Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, fire, goshawk, Kootenai National Forest, logging, owls, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Jesse Froehling The Northern Goshawk, a bird the size of a crow, with salt and pepper plumage and a distinct light eyebrow, calls the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest home. For years, the U.S. Forest Service has used the goshawk as an “indicator...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 27, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, beetles, fire, logging, moose, pileated woodpecker, wilderness, wolverines
by Daniel Person, Chronicle Staff Writer In Madison County, there’s a place called Cowboy’s Heaven. Wolverines live there, as do moose, black bears and mountain lions. No roads cut across its open grasslands or through its forests, and it’s...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 17, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, forest, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads, wilderness
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Michael Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies blasted Senator Tester’s logging bill as turning over management of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 14, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, bobcats, Lewis and Clark National Forest, lynx
by Eve Byron Nine environmental groups notified the Department of the Interior Friday that they plan to file a lawsuit over the most recent designation of critical habitat for Canada lynx. Generally speaking, the groups don’t believe that enough land was...