by Mike Garrity | Sep 27, 2012 | AWR, Bozeman Watershed, East Boulder Creek, fire, Gallatin National Forest, logging
Bozeman Watershed (png) East Boulder Creek (PDF) Water Supply Less Vulnerable to Fire Environmental Groups Sue to Stop Logging Projects Conservations Groups Sue Over Gallatin National Forest Logging Projects Conservation Groups File Lawsuit...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 23, 2010 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, goshawk, logging, pileated woodpecker
by George Wuerthner The Elliston Face logging sale on the Helena National Forest near the town of Elliston is yet another example of how the Forest Service exploits the public’s misconceptions about wildfire and forest ecology to further its logging agenda. Like...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2010 | AWR, bears, fire, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, roads
by Karl Puckett, Tribune staff writer Two environmental groups successfully appealed a plan by the Lewis and Clark National Forest to burn and log 763 acres of forest in the Benchmark Road corridor west of Augusta. The Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project was to use...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 29, 2010 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, fire, mining, wilderness
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian TROY – A controversial mine that would tunnel beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness was put on hold Monday when a federal judge rejected Forest Service approval of the proposed copper and silver operation. “From our...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 25, 2010 | AWR, beetles, fire, fish, forest, opinion
by George Wuerthner, Opinion The current pine beetle “outbreak” that has led to tree mortality among Rocky Mountain forests has prompted some people to suggest that beetles are “destroying” our forests and that beetle-killed trees will...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 26, 2010 | AWR, fire, forest, pine
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Critics of Ashland-area plan fear it would damage game habitat A fuel reduction project northeast of Ashland that was pulled last year after a threatened lawsuit has been repackaged with another one for public review, but it still...
