by Mike Garrity | Mar 13, 2022 | Grizzly, Yaak
If you haven’t been to the Cabinet-Yaak region in northwest Montana, you ought to go. You will find an incredibly beautiful landscape that alternates from rugged, glaciated peaks, to dense coniferous forests with lush meadows and riparian areas along the meandering...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 15, 2021 | Grizzly
On December 13, a federal court in Montana handed down a big victory for elk and grizzly bears in Montana. The U.S. Forest Service had approved a commercial logging and road-building project on public lands in Montana’s upper Blackfoot River watershed, an incredibly...
by Mike Garrity | 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 Mike Garrity | 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 Mike Garrity | 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 Mike Garrity | 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...
