by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | AWR, fish, forest, logging
by Matthew Preusch, The Oregonian In a sharp course change from current federal policy, the Obama administration said Wednesday it wants far more of Oregon and four other western states set aside to protect a native, wide-ranging fish called the bull trout. It would...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | AWR, fish
by Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times In a major reversal of Bush administration policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate more than 22,600 miles of streams in the northwestern U.S. as critical habitat for the bull trout, a signature fish of the...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | AWR, fish, wildlife
contacts Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Environmental groups Alliance for the Wild Rockies Friends and Friends of the Wild Swan welcomed the U.S. Fish and...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 14, 2009 | AWR, fish, forest, logging, wilderness
by Noelle Straub, E&E reporter Trying to satisfy everyone from wilderness advocates to timber companies, Sen. Jon Tester has proposed a new model for managing national forests. The Democrat’s controversial proposal, which he has dubbed the “Forest...
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 | Aug 31, 2009 | AWR, bears, fish, Flathead National Forest, logging, roads
by Sonya Angelica Diehn (CN) – A U.S. Forest Service logging plan will harm threatened grizzly bears in Montana’s Flathead National Forest, three environmental groups say. The logging plan reopens portions of a closed road and keeps intact 10 culverts that...
