by Mike Garrity | May 24, 2013 | AWR, bears, elk, forest, roads
Summary judgment is also granted in favor of Plaintiffs on their claims under the ESA. The Court concludes that the case must be remanded to the Wildlife Service to consider whether lynx “may be present” in the Forest because the Wildlife Service...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 14, 2013 | AWR, forest, goshawk, logging, owls, wildlife
contact; Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Utah Environmental Congress and Native Ecosystems Council are pleased to announce that the Dixie National Forest has withdrawn the planned...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 14, 2013 | AWR, forest, goshawk
by Wendy Ogata, The Salt Lake Tribune U.S. Forest Service gives no reason for rejection of project. Wildlife conservation groups on Thursday praised a decision by Dixie National Forest withdrawing a plan to harvest 8,000 acres of old-growth forest near Escalante....
by Mike Garrity | Dec 14, 2012 | AWR, forest, grouse, logging, trapping
by Chronicle Staff Two environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service and Regional Forester Faye Krueger last week to stop a 3,400-acre thinning project in the east Pioneer Mountains north of Dillon. In a March decision, Krueger said the Trapper Project would use...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 21, 2012 | AWR, forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest, roads
by Michael Garrity, Viewpoints, Great Falls Tribune The Tribune’s article on Nov. 18 about the Lewis and Clark National Forest left out some important details and readers deserve to know why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council went to...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 7, 2012 | AWR, elk, forest
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Two conservation groups are suing the Helena National Forest to try to stop a vegetation management project near Townsend. The Cabin Gulch Vegetation Treatment and Project involves logging and burning trees on 2,891 acres over a...
