by Mike Garrity | Aug 26, 2010 | AWR, bears, beetles, elk, forest, goshawk, logging, lynx, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Helena, MT — The Helena National Forest announced on August 20 that they are pulling their decision to log the Elliston Face Fuels Reduction timber sale. The Alliance for the...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 23, 2010 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, goshawk, logging, pileated woodpecker
by George Wuerthner The Elliston Face logging sale on the Helena National Forest near the town of Elliston is yet another example of how the Forest Service exploits the public’s misconceptions about wildfire and forest ecology to further its logging agenda. Like...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 25, 2010 | AWR, beetles, fire, fish, forest, opinion
by George Wuerthner, Opinion The current pine beetle “outbreak” that has led to tree mortality among Rocky Mountain forests has prompted some people to suggest that beetles are “destroying” our forests and that beetle-killed trees will...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 20, 2009 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, logging
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Author and ecologist George Weurthner told a full house at the University of Montana-Helena Thursday night that if they’re going to do anything about the pine beetle epidemic in the mountains around the city, that they should...
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 | Jan 8, 2009 | AWR, bears, beetles, Flathead National Forest, forest, roads
HELENA – A federal appeals court says the Flathead National Forest failed to follow the grizzly bear standards in its Forest Plan when it approved the Moose Post-Fire Project in 2002. Under the project, about 20 miles north of Columbia Falls, more access was...
