by Mike Garrity | Aug 26, 2010 | AWR, bears, beetles, elk, forest, goshawk, logging, lynx, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Helena, MT — The Helena National Forest announced on August 20 that they are pulling their decision to log the Elliston Face Fuels Reduction timber sale. The Alliance for the...
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 | May 10, 2010 | AWR, elk, goshawk, hunting, logging, opinion, pine
by Michael Garrity, Opinion Thanks to the IR for Eve Byron’s excellent article on the proposed Elliston Face timber sale (5-6-10), but there are a couple more important points for readers to consider that didn’t make it into the story. This is the fourth...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2010 | AWR, bears, fire, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, roads
by Karl Puckett, Tribune staff writer Two environmental groups successfully appealed a plan by the Lewis and Clark National Forest to burn and log 763 acres of forest in the Benchmark Road corridor west of Augusta. The Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project was to use...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 8, 2009 | AWR, elk, fish, goshawk, logging, Lolo National Forest
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Bull trout, loggers and goshawks all won in an appeal settlement on the Butte Lookout timber sale. While the logging plan was reduced by almost half its acreage, representatives of both the Lolo National Forest and appellant Alliance...
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...