by Mike Garrity | Mar 22, 2011 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Kootenai National Forest has dropped an appeal of a federal court ruling that halted three planned road-building and logging projects on public land in occupied habitat for...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 19, 2010 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, opinion
by Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies Opinion – Your Turn Sen. Jon Tester made many promises during his campaign against former Sen. Conrad Burns, including working to protect all inventoried roadless areas, not using riders to...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 6, 2010 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging
by Canda Harbaugh, The Western News Federal District Court Judge Donald Molloy halted three Kootenai National Forest logging projects last week after ruling that the U.S. Forest Service failed to properly evaluate how the work would affect endangered grizzly bears....
by Mike Garrity | Jun 15, 2010 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads, Yellowstone National Park
by Brad Fuqua, The Western News U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last week issued a temporary restraining order on three proposed logging projects in Kootenai National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies petitioned the court for the temporary restraining order...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 11, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest
by The Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Forest Service from starting three timber projects in a northwestern Montana forest, saying the work could harm the grizzly bear population there. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 8, 2010 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA – A U.S. Forest Service plan to spray herbicide from helicopters over the Kootenai National Forest does not adequately protect dozens of grizzly bears and could drive them from their habitat, a federal judge has ruled. U.S....
