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 | 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 | 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 | Nov 20, 2009 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, logging
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Author and ecologist George Weurthner told a full house at the University of Montana-Helena Thursday night that if they’re going to do anything about the pine beetle epidemic in the mountains around the city, that they should...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 19, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Logging plans in the Kootenai National Forest have been challenged by an environmental group that argues new road-building will ruin chances for grizzly bear survival. “The grizzly numbers there continue to decline every...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 5, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...