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,...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 21, 2019 | Grizzly
“In a nutshell,” said Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, “the Forest Service contended that if it puts a berm on an existing road it’s considered effectively closed to motorized traffic. We showed the court that people were driving...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 14, 2018 | bears, Grizzly
Originally published here… A federal judge has blocked the start of grizzly bear hunting seasons for another two weeks while he finishes a ruling on the legality of ending Endangered Species Act protection for bears around Yellowstone National Park. “There...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 30, 2017 | Grizzly
MISSOULA, Mont. – Three Rocky Mountain conservation groups – Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Western Watersheds Project, and Native Ecosystems Council – today submitted a Notice of Intent to litigate the administration’s decision to remove the Yellowstone grizzly bear...
