by Mike Garrity | Apr 21, 2009 | AWR, forest, Glacier National Park, Grand Teton National Park, logging, mining, roads, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Gary Macfarlane, President,Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (208) 882-9755 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee announced today...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 16, 2009 | AWR, forest, roads, wilderness, wildlife
Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives 1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 April 16, 2009 Dear Representative Rahall and Representative Grijalva: H.R. 980, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Act (NREPA) was originally...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 2, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, Yosemite National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit Friday afternoon in Federal District Court in Missoula against the U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Jan 8, 2009 | AWR, bears, beetles, Flathead National Forest, forest, roads
HELENA – A federal appeals court says the Flathead National Forest failed to follow the grizzly bear standards in its Forest Plan when it approved the Moose Post-Fire Project in 2002. Under the project, about 20 miles north of Columbia Falls, more access was...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 8, 2009 | AWR, bears, Flathead National Forest, forest, Glacier National Park
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian The Forest Service made a wrong decision on protecting grizzly bears in the Flathead National Forest because it didn’t have a rule to make the decision with, according to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case grew out of...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 3, 2009 | Associated Press, AWR, forest, logging, Salmon National Forest
by The Associated Press Boise, Idaho – The U.S. Forest Service settled a lawsuit by environmentalists fighting a proposed timber sale near the central Idaho town of Salmon by agreeing to scale back logging that was meant to reduce fuels. In May, the Alliance for...
