by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2009 | Associated Press, AWR, fish, grouse, logging, lynx, mining, owls, wildlife
by Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to take a new look at how much habitat needs to be protected for the bull trout – in the latest Obama administration rollback of Bush administration reductions in the...
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...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2009 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, goats, Grand Canyon National Park, logging, lynx, mining, moose, sheep, wilderness, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
by Todd Wilkinson After years of pushing Congress to protect a vast swath of her adopted Northern Rockies, Carole King may finally have a more receptive audience “Hi,” she said, extending her hand, almost shyly, “my name is Carole.” Sixteen...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 30, 2009 | AWR, fish, logging, mining
PORTLAND – The Obama administration won’t defend the Bush administration’s cuts to habitat protections for the threatened bull trout, whose need for cold, clean water can stand in the way of logging and mining on national forests. Conservation groups...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 27, 2009 | AWR, fish, wildlife
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will rework its September 2005 critical habitat designation for threatened Columbia and Klamath river bull trout stocks. A lawsuit challenging the legality of the designation was filed in U.S. District Court in Portland in...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 9, 2009 | Associated Press, AWR, fish, logging, mining
by The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) – The U.S. Justice Department may soften its stance in a lawsuit by Montana environmental activists who sought certain habitat protections for bull trout. The threatened species needs clean and cold water, a need that...
