by Mike Garrity | Jun 23, 2010 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, goshawk, logging, pileated woodpecker
by George Wuerthner The Elliston Face logging sale on the Helena National Forest near the town of Elliston is yet another example of how the Forest Service exploits the public’s misconceptions about wildfire and forest ecology to further its logging agenda. Like...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 4, 2010 | AWR, forest, logging, wildlife
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian A proposal to drop the logging mandate in Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act has local Congress-watchers buzzing, but it may be already out of date. A “discussion draft” of Tester’s S. 1470...
by Mike Garrity | May 2, 2010 | AWR, bears, elk, Elk Winter Range, forest, logging, lynx, pine
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT – Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S....
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 | Mar 11, 2010 | AWR, forest, logging, wildlife
by Nick Gevock Montana groups top in nation for fighting wildfire reduction projects Only one out of 50 U.S. Forest Service projects to reduce wildfire risk gets challenged in court nationwide, but in the region including Montana environmental groups sue at the...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 26, 2010 | AWR, fire, forest, pine
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Critics of Ashland-area plan fear it would damage game habitat A fuel reduction project northeast of Ashland that was pulled last year after a threatened lawsuit has been repackaged with another one for public review, but it still...
