by Erik Gillberg | May 22, 2025 | Gravelly Mountains, Grizzly, grouse, lynx, sage grouse
Gravelly Mountain Range – U.S. Forest Service The U.S. Forest Service cancelled an illegal public land logging project due to a recently-filed lawsuit by Montana conservation group Alliance for the Wild Rockies on May 20th. The illegal logging was scheduled to...
by Erik Gillberg | May 6, 2025 | Grizzly, Paradise Valley
Photo by Glenn Phillips Montana’s Paradise Valley is aptly named. Sitting between two towering mountain ranges, it cradles the mighty Yellowstone River that flows from its headwaters in America’s first national park and provides critical habitat to the native species...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 6, 2025 | AWR, Grizzly, Selkirk
Photo by Glenn Phillips It took the Alliance for the Wild Rockies almost six years of litigation fighting the US Forest Service through both the Trump and Biden administrations to try and save what’s left of the imperiled grizzly bear population in Northern...
by Erik Gillberg | Apr 4, 2025 | Gravelly Mountains, Grizzly, grouse, lynx
Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS Yesterday, April 3, 2025, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Council on Wildlife and Fish and Native Ecosystems Council filed a federal lawsuit to protect habitat for three rare wildlife species — grizzly bears, lynx, and sage grouse — in...
by Erik Gillberg | Mar 17, 2025 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines
Photo by Michael Hoyt Thanks to our threat to sue the Forest Service over using a categorical exclusion to avoid analyzing impacts on bull trout, grizzly bears, and lynx, a massive deforestation project in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley has been halted. The Forest...
by Erik Gillberg | Feb 27, 2025 | Cabinet Mountains, Grizzly
Photo by Glenn Phillips The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council in their challenge to the Black Ram project on the Kootenai National Forest in Montana. The Ninth Circuit decision on February...