by Mike Garrity | Aug 23, 2023 | elk, Grizzly, logging, lynx, Yellowstone National Park
It’s absolutely one of the worst places in the country for clearcuts. So we’re thrilled that the Court agreed with us and halted the logging project. But going even further, the Court’s Order vacated the Forest Service’s approval of this logging and road-building...
by Mike Garrity | May 25, 2020 | bull trout, elk, Grizzly, lynx
Canadian lynx. Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. What would you do if you caught Trump’s Forest Service trying to slip through huge clearcuts and bulldozing roads into an already over-cut area? How about if the Forest Service then denied the potential presence of...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2019 | elk
Originally published in the Idaho State Journal here. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it has to log and burn thousands of acres in Idaho’s Pleasantview Mountains, west of Malad, Idaho, to improve aspen stands and habitat for mule deer and elk. To do so, the...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 20, 2017 | AWR, bears, elk, lynx
Two conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit in Federal District Court in Missoula Friday challenging the Stonewall Vegetation Project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest about 4 miles northwest of Lincoln,...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 26, 2014 | AWR, bears, bull trout, elk, forest, roads, Stillwater State Forest, Swan Valley, timber
by Dillon Tabish A federal judge has halted a logging project near Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley, siding with conservation groups that argued the U.S. Forest Service had disobeyed environmental laws. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Thursday blocked the...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 14, 2013 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, goshawk, logging, lynx, pileated woodpecker, timber, wolverines
by Martin Kidston A conservation group filed an injunction in U.S. District Court on Tuesday to block a restoration project and timber sale on the Lolo National Forest, saying the work would adversely impact a variety of species by altering their habitat. In its...
