by Mike Garrity | Oct 25, 2009 | AWR, cattle, elk, hunting, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times Reporting from Gardiner, Mont. – Wolf 527 was a survivor. She lived through a rival pack’s crippling 12-day siege of her den. When another pair of wolves laid down stakes in her territory, she killed the mother and...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 12, 2009 | AWR, bears, cattle, deer, elk, sheep, wildlife, wolves
by Eve Byron, Independent Record With an estimated 1,645 gray wolves now on the landscape in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, their recovery is heralded by many government officials as an amazing success story. Yet it hasn’t come cheap. Americans have spent more than...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 5, 2008 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, cattle
by Nick Gevocks Federal land managers have pulled a controlled burning project on more than 900 acres of sagebrush and grassland near the mouth of Birch Creek after environmentalists sued to halt the burn. Tom Osen, Dillon district ranger for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 30, 2004 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, bison, buffalo, cattle, cows, elk, Gallatin National Forest, grouse, wolves
by Perry Backus, The Montana Standard – 01/30/2004 ENNIS – Three environmental groups have taken the Forest Service to task over its proposed update of grazing allotments in the southern portion of the Gravelly Range, in southwest Montana. But a local...
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 | Nov 3, 2000 | AWR, bears, Bitterroot Mountains, cattle
A preliminary analysis of the written comment record submitted on the proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Bitterroot Mountains-obtained following a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act-shows a strong majority favor full threatened species status for...
