by Mike Garrity | Nov 27, 2000 | AWR, forest, roads
by Mike Dombeck Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Twenty years of local planning efforts, wilderness debates, appeals, lawsuits, and injunctions have not solved the issue of long-term management of some 50 million acres of roadless...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 26, 2000 | AWR, Bitterroot National Forest, forest, logging, wildlife
contact Keith Hammer at (406) 755-1379 KALISPELL—By misrepresenting the historic condition of ponderosa pine forests in its educational posters, the US Forest Service is also misrepresenting to the public the effects of logging and ecosystem management treatments...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 22, 2000 | AWR, fish, forest, roads
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Time to speak out Science and economics are “overwhelming” in their endorsement of aroadbuilding ban in roadless areas of the national forests, conservationists said Tuesday. But the facts are being misrepresented by...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 18, 1999 | AWR, bears, forest, logging, roads, Yellowstone National Park
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Republican says her party is off base on environment Martha Marks is a Republican and an environmentalist, and she doesn’t understand why the Grand Old Party isn’t greener. Or why people keep asking her when she’s...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 9, 1999 | AWR, forest, logging, Nez Perce Fork, roads
AWR Release Last June, District Ranger Dave Campbell authorized a large scale project in the Nez Perce Fork drainage on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. This decision affected a project area of 92,000 acres, and would have allowed logging within the...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 29, 1999 | Associated Press, AWR, forest, wilderness
The Associated Press Most people living in the West believe not enough national forest land has been designated as wilderness, according to a poll commissioned by three conservation organizations. The poll, conducted by the Mellman Group Inc. and released Tuesday,...
