by Erik Gillberg | Aug 25, 2025 | bull trout
Bull Trout by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and clearcut some of...
by Erik Gillberg | Aug 19, 2025 | bull trout
Dead fish from a creek earlier this summer when temperatures in Montana hit triple digits. (Photo by Larry Campbelli). Anyone who drives around the state of Montana right now can see one unassailable truth: our state’ renowned rivers and the prized fish which inhabit...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 17, 2025 | bull trout
Photo by US FWS The Clark Fork River is federally-designated “critical habitat” for bull trout, a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act since 1999. The Upper Clark Fork is also part of the nation’s largest Superfund site, having suffered severe...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 14, 2024 | bull trout
Bull trout. Image: US Fish and Wildlife Service Forest Service plan to log old growth and bulldoze logging roads in bull trout critical habitat challenged in federal court There’s so much wrong with this project, so many illegalities, omissions, and disregard for the...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 7, 2023 | AWR, bull trout, Grizzly
Photo: Park Service For decades the Forest Service has gotten away with calling hundreds, if not thousands, of roads on national forests “closed” when they’re not. As is well known and documented, illegal use of the roads continues when people drive around the fences,...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 16, 2023 | bull trout, clearcut, Endangered Species Act, Grizzly, lynx
Remember when the Forest Service bluffed the public and naive environmental groups saying the agency never approved clearcuts larger than 20 acres? No longer! The latest Buckskin-Saddle project in northern Idaho includes 30 square miles of logging with more than half...
