by Mike Garrity | May 10, 2010 | AWR, elk, goshawk, hunting, logging, opinion, pine
by Michael Garrity, Opinion Thanks to the IR for Eve Byron’s excellent article on the proposed Elliston Face timber sale (5-6-10), but there are a couple more important points for readers to consider that didn’t make it into the story. This is the fourth...
by Mike Garrity | May 2, 2010 | AWR, bears, elk, Elk Winter Range, forest, logging, lynx, pine
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT – Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Dec 8, 2009 | AWR, elk, fish, goshawk, logging, Lolo National Forest
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Bull trout, loggers and goshawks all won in an appeal settlement on the Butte Lookout timber sale. While the logging plan was reduced by almost half its acreage, representatives of both the Lolo National Forest and appellant Alliance...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, deer, elk, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian October is always a lousy month to be a grizzly bear, and this October was worse than usual. Eight of the threatened bears were killed in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem last month, compared to the 10-year October average of...
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...
