by Mike Garrity | Jun 12, 2020 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines
For the second time in two days, the Trump administration conceded defeat to the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. The first time was when the Administration was trying to pretend roads magically disappear when the Forest Service dumps a pile of dirt in front of Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 10, 2020 | Grizzly
You can read this post on Counter Punch here: Roads Removal: a Big Win for Grizzlies in the Northern Rockies When the Forest Service classifies a road in our national forests as “closed” to protect endangered species like grizzly bears or provide secure habitat for...
by Mike Garrity | May 25, 2020 | bull trout, elk, Grizzly, lynx
Canadian lynx. Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. What would you do if you caught Trump’s Forest Service trying to slip through huge clearcuts and bulldozing roads into an already over-cut area? How about if the Forest Service then denied the potential presence of...
by Mike Garrity | May 13, 2020 | Grizzly
There are tens of millions of cows in the U.S. but only about 700 grizzly bears in the remote and wild public lands known as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem that include and surround America’s first national park. Grizzlies are listed as “Threatened” under the...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 4, 2020 | Elk Creek, Grizzly, lynx
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit on April 3rd in Federal District Court in Great Falls, Montana to stop the Elk Smith Project on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The project seeks to non-commercially log and/or burn 10,331 acres in the Elk...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 27, 2019 | Grizzly
Additional press on this topic here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/11/how-the-alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-stopped-trump-from-bulldozing-cabinet-yaak-and-selkirk-grizzly-bears-into-extinction/ Press Release – October 3, 2019 CONTACT: Mike Garrity,...