by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2013 | AWR, BLM, wildlife
by Francis Davis of The Montana Standard The U.S. Forest Service will withdraw its original plans and prepare a new analysis on a 3,400-acre thinning project in the east Pioneer Mountains near Wise River. Two environmental groups had sued the agency to stop the...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 29, 2011 | AWR, bison, BLM, buffalo, fish, forest, University of Montana, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer In the realm of green groups, there are no widgets for sale. Donors receive no bells or whistles to take home and show for their money. There are only ideas, projects, promises of action, a hope and a cause. Still, that’s...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 20, 2005 | AWR, BLM
by Tony Tweedale Everyone acknowledges that invasive plants (“weeds”) can harm native ecosystems. But land stewards as the USFS, and BLM seem to see only the invasives, and disregard a crucial variable: something has to change for an invasive to become...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 24, 2002 | AWR, BLM, cattle, Center for Biological Diversity, forest, Grand Canyon National Park, National Cattlemen's Beef Association
by Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News American taxpayers lose at least $128 million a year — and potentially up to $1 billion — subsidizing cattle grazing on millions of acres of public lands across the West, according to a new study commissioned by conservation...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 11, 1998 | AWR, BLM, fish, forest
The bull trout has finally been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act! This is a major victory for watershed protection and restoration, native species, and conservation biology. This action, announced by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on...
