by Erik Gillberg | Sep 2, 2021 | bears, Grizzly, roads
Photo by Glenn Phillips, www.glennphillipsphoto.com. Misclassified roads in our national forests probably pose the most imminent threat to grizzly habitat today — and today there are many more such roads than there were in 1993. Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte...
by Erik Gillberg | Jun 11, 2021 | Grizzly
Photo by Roger Hayden In response to the U.S. Forest Service violating a court order and injunction against the Hanna Flats logging project in Northern Idaho, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a second lawsuit on June 7th seeking to force the government to...
by Erik Gillberg | Mar 9, 2021 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines, Yellowstone National Park
On March 8th, a federal court in Idaho ruled that a legal challenge to a natural gas pipeline can proceed. The lawsuit was filed by two grassroots conservation groups — Yellowstone to Uintas Connection and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies — and it challenges the...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 4, 2020 | clearcut, Grizzly, Ninemile
Clearcut on national forest land in Montana. Photo: Steve Platt. https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-challenges-plans-to-log-grizzly-habitat-in-ninemile/article_307c87e0-a8a2-565f-b571-7e68ebbf3648.html Alliance for the Wild Rockies...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2020 | Grizzly
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling today on the litigation over the 2018 de-listing of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population under the Endangered Species Act, affirming a District Court order that blocked the de-listing of the great bears and kept...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 6, 2020 | Grizzly
There was never any scientifically-sound reason to clearcut and bulldoze new logging roads into the roadless lands tucked along the Continental Divide in Helena, Montana’s backyard. But Trump’s Forest Service is on a cut and run tear and decided to do it anyway...
