by Erik Gillberg | Mar 17, 2026 | Grizzly, lynx
Lynx – Photo by Sara German – USFWS The Cooke City area of Montana has one of the healthiest whitebark pine forests in the region. Yet now, the Forest Service wants to apply an unscientific method of logging across more than 2,000 acres of these whitebark...
by Erik Gillberg | Dec 16, 2025 | AWR, Grizzly, lynx, wolverines, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
Photo by National Park Service For grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, wolverine, and bison there is no “boundary” around Yellowstone National Park. The forests in this area — the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — extend beyond Yellowstone Park’s boundaries and...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 26, 2025 | Grizzly, grouse, lynx, sage grouse
Photo by USFS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a federal lawsuit to protect habitat for three rare wildlife species — grizzly bears, lynx, and sage grouse — on the Continental Divide, just north of Lemhi Pass, where Lewis and Clark first crossed the Continental...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 3, 2025 | Grizzly
Photo: Frank van Manen /USGS Alliance for the Wild Rockies understands that when the government breaks the law and destroys the essential habitat upon which endangered species like grizzly bears rely, the only way to stop the destruction is to file a lawsuit. Last...
by Erik Gillberg | Sep 30, 2025 | Grizzly
Sitting between two towering mountain ranges, Montana’s Paradise Valley is aptly named. Cradling the mighty Yellowstone River that flows from Yellowstone National Park, the valley provides critical habitat to all the native species still present 200 years after...
by Erik Gillberg | Sep 18, 2025 | Colville Forest, goshawk, Grizzly, red-necked grebe
A foggy morning at Calispell Meadows on the Colville National Forest in northeast Washington – Photo courtesy USFS Once again the Alliance for the Wild Rockies caught the Forest Service breaking the law, took the agency to court, and won. This time a Washington...
