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...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, fire, goshawk, Kootenai National Forest, logging, owls, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Jesse Froehling The Northern Goshawk, a bird the size of a crow, with salt and pepper plumage and a distinct light eyebrow, calls the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest home. For years, the U.S. Forest Service has used the goshawk as an “indicator...
by Mike Garrity | May 16, 2009 | AWR, Custer National Forest, goshawk, logging
by Gazette News Services A logging project planned on more than 1,700 acres on the Custer National Forest’s Ashland District is under fire from two conservation groups. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit Thursday...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 5, 2009 | AWR, elk, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, wildlife
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 White Sulphur Springs, Montana – Carol Hatfield, The Ranger for the White Sulphur Ranger District in the Lewis and Clark National Forest signed a letter yesterday withdrawing...