by Erik Gillberg | 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...
by Erik Gillberg | Dec 29, 2022 | bull trout
Bull trout photo (Associated Press) Thanks to our lawsuit, the Forest Service was forced to withdraw a huge logging and road bulldozing project in Boise’s most popular recreation area a few days ago. The groups contended the agency did not comply with the Endangered...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 13, 2022 | bull trout, Garnet Mountains, Grizzly, lynx
It’s incredibly disappointing, but the Bureau of Land Management is no better under Tracy Stone-Manning’s leadership than under Trump. While the examples pile up nationally, here in Stone-Manning’s home state the agency is attempting to dodge required public review...
by Mike Garrity | May 13, 2022 | bull trout
Photo courtesy of Pat Clayton The Clark Fork River is federally-designated as “critical habitat” for bull trout, which have been listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act since 1999. The Upper Clark Fork is also part of the nation’s largest Superfund...
