by Mike Garrity | Nov 20, 2009 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, logging
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Author and ecologist George Weurthner told a full house at the University of Montana-Helena Thursday night that if they’re going to do anything about the pine beetle epidemic in the mountains around the city, that they should...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 8, 2009 | AWR, fire, wilderness
by Jennifer McKee, IR State Bureau The backcountry of Glacier National Park should be protected as formal wilderness area, the park’s superintendent told a business group here Wednesday. “This would not change how we manage the park,” Glacier...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 21, 2009 | AWR, Custer National Forest, deer, elk, fire, Gallatin National Forest, pine, wild turkey
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Under threat of a lawsuit, the Custer National Forest has pulled a 10,000-acre fuels reduction project northeast of Ashland. Acting Ashland District Ranger Doug Epperly announced the decision in a letter dated Sept. 14. “We...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, fire, goshawk, Kootenai National Forest, logging, owls, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Jesse Froehling The Northern Goshawk, a bird the size of a crow, with salt and pepper plumage and a distinct light eyebrow, calls the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest home. For years, the U.S. Forest Service has used the goshawk as an “indicator...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 27, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, beetles, fire, logging, moose, pileated woodpecker, wilderness, wolverines
by Daniel Person, Chronicle Staff Writer In Madison County, there’s a place called Cowboy’s Heaven. Wolverines live there, as do moose, black bears and mountain lions. No roads cut across its open grasslands or through its forests, and it’s...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2009 | AWR, fire, fish
contacts Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The District Court in Portland, Oregon ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to re-analyze the critical...
