by Mike Garrity | Sep 21, 2023 | clearcut, Grizzly, Yellowstone National Park
Once again, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Center on Biological Diversity and Council on Wildlife and Fish are challenging the Biden administration’s Forest Service on yet another massive clearcutting. This time it’s the South Plateau Project, right on the border...
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 Mike Garrity | Oct 6, 2021 | clearcut
Clearcut, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In so many ways the future hangs in the balance as Congress debates the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill and $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Although encouraging the use of more electric...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 16, 2021 | Blackhall Meadows, clearcut
Photo: Vicki Anfinson The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is putting up a billboard in Helena with this picture of a massive Forest Service clearcut along the trail to Blackhall Meadows in the Helena National Forest. The Forest Service claimed this utter destruction...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 4, 2020 | clearcut, Grizzly, Ninemile
Clearcut on national forest land in Montana. Photo: Steve Platt. https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-challenges-plans-to-log-grizzly-habitat-in-ninemile/article_307c87e0-a8a2-565f-b571-7e68ebbf3648.html Alliance for the Wild Rockies...
