by Mike Garrity | May 12, 2015 | AWR, forest, logging
A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in federal court Monday challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to authorize a large logging, burning, and road-building project in rare habitat for threatened lynx and grizzly bears on public lands in...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 9, 2014 | AWR, bears, forest, Hebgen Lake, logging, lynx, roads
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer A timber sale along Hebgen Lake is on hold until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analyzes possible threats to grizzly bears and Canadian lynx. Last Friday, Great Falls District Court Judge Brian Morris agreed with two...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 9, 2014 | AWR, forest, logging
by Rob Chaney The U.S. Forest Service can’t carry out previously planned logging projects on 111,740 acres of land it got from The Nature Conservancy without doing its own analysis first, according to a federal judge. The case affects a big transfer of former...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 26, 2014 | AWR, bears, bull trout, elk, forest, roads, Stillwater State Forest, Swan Valley, timber
by Dillon Tabish A federal judge has halted a logging project near Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley, siding with conservation groups that argued the U.S. Forest Service had disobeyed environmental laws. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Thursday blocked the...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 3, 2014 | AWR, forest, logging
Collaboration Extra: Legal Logging and Cranky ‘Fringe’ Groups Looking to Gum up the Works Critics Decry Lack of Public Input on Forest Proposal
by Mike Garrity | May 20, 2014 | AWR, forest, pine
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Two environmental groups have filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over the listing of the whitebark pine under the Endangered Species Act. The WildWest Institute and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed the notice...
