by Mike Garrity | Jun 1, 2011 | AWR, bears, bison, buffalo, cattle, Yellowstone National Park
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle About 500 bison remain west of Yellowstone National Park, but Wednesday their time there will come to an end. Low-flying helicopters and horseback riders will begin hazing the animals back into the...
by Mike Garrity | May 19, 2011 | AWR, bears, bison, buffalo, cattle, forest, Yellowstone National Park
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has filed a lawsuit trying to stop state and federal officials from using helicopters to haze bison into Yellowstone National Park, arguing the tactic also harasses grizzly bears. “We have video...
by Mike Garrity | May 18, 2011 | AWR, bears, bison, buffalo, cattle, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a Helena, Montana, based non-profit conservation group, has filed a lawsuit to halt repeated low-altitude helicopter flights over occupied grizzly...
by Mike Garrity | May 12, 2011 | AWR, bears, bison, cattle, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a Helena, Montana, based non-profit conservation group, filed an official 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue under the Endangered Species Act...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 17, 2011 | AWR, cattle, elk, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, The Independent Record In a bold move against federal authority of gray wolves in Montana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer has called for entire packs to be killed in the Bitterroot Valley to protect the dwindling elk population there, and has directed Montana...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, beehives, bison, buffalo, cattle, coyotes, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, sheep, wolves
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer When members of the Ayers family snapped photographs of a grizzly bear spotted on their ranch north of Fort Benton in the early summer, they were documenting the return of the species to its former home on the range. “I...
