by Mike Garrity | Mar 29, 2010 | AWR, bears, fish, mining
MISSOULA, Montana, March 29, 2010 (ENS) – Environmental groups today declared victory for bull trout, grizzly bears and the people of northwest Montana, when a federal judge rejected the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a proposed silver and copper mine...
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 11, 2010 | AWR, fish, wildlife
by George Ochenski, political analyst for the Independent How environmental advocates beat political perfidy Many years ago, while snorkeling the North Fork of the Flathead River, I slipped into a large eddy behind a fallen tree to rest and watch the incredibly clear...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 14, 2010 | AWR, fish, forest, logging, mining, polar bear, roads, wildlife
by Jeff Barnard AP Environmental Writer Fish and Wildlife proposes another reversal of Bush policy, this time on bull trout habitat In another reversal of Bush administration Endangered Species Act policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to more than...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, fish, Flathead National Forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Threatened bull trout have won a huge increase in the amount of critical habitat that now qualifies for federal oversight. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed Bush administration policy and published new rules to...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | AWR, fish, logging, mining, roads, wildlife
by Jeff Barnard, Ap Environmental Writer GRANTS PASS, Ore. — In another reversal of Bush administration Endangered Species Act policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to more than quadruple habitat protections for the bull trout, a fish that has been harmed...
