by Mike Garrity | Aug 20, 2023 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly
Without question, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears are the most isolated and threatened population in Montana. The bad news is that this already small population is going downhill so fast it’s threatened with irreversible inbreeding. The good news is the Alliance for...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 26, 2023 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly, Yaak
Photo credit: Glen Phillips One would have to be mighty gullible to believe the Forest Service’s claim that the Knotty Pine Project would benefit the declining population of Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears because the 5,000 acres of logging with massive new clearcuts would...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 10, 2023 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly
Photo: Glen Phillips There’s no other way to put it, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population is going downhill fast – which is the opposite of the agency’s legal mandate to recover, not extinguish, endangered species. In 2018 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service counted...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 29, 2010 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, fire, mining, wilderness
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian TROY – A controversial mine that would tunnel beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness was put on hold Monday when a federal judge rejected Forest Service approval of the proposed copper and silver operation. “From our...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 18, 2009 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
contacts Liz Sedler, AWR, (208) 263-5281 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in Federal District Court in Missoula on Monday challenging the U.S. Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 31, 2005 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, fish, mining
by Susan Gallagher – Associated Press Writer – 03/31/05 HELENA—A proposed copper and silver mine challenged by environmental groups — and by jeweler Tiffany & Co. — has been sidelined by a judge who found federal officials gave approval without...
