by Mike Garrity | Mar 31, 2005 | AWR, bears, fish, hunting, Kootenai National Forest, mining
by Michael Jamison, the Missoulian KALISPELL – A controversial plan to mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness was pulled off the table Wednesday, with a court ruling that federal wildlife officials put grizzly bears and bull trout at risk when they...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2004 | AWR, bears, Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, Lolo National Forest, roads
contacts Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Mike Bader, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 721-4835 Dan Rohlf, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, (503) 768-6707 Marc Fink, Western Environmental Law Center, (208) 342-2216 Conservation...
by Mike Garrity | May 12, 2004 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, forest, Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, Lolo National Forest, roads
Associated Press MISSOULA (AP) – Seven environmental groups filed an administrative appeal Monday, saying a Forest Service plan doesn’t close enough roads to help protect grizzly bears in the Lolo, Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle national forests. Grizzly...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 9, 2003 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, forest, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A timber sale in the Kootenai National Forest on the Idaho border has been delayed as officials consider its impact on grizzly bears. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has withdrawn its approval for the White Pine timber sale, pressured...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 8, 2003 | AWR, bears, fire, Kootenai National Forest, logging, Lolo National Forest, roads
by Sonja Lee Great Falls Tribune Helena National Forest officials would like to harvest 20 million to 25 million board feet of commercial timber from an area that burned in the Snow Talon Fire near Lincoln. The August fire charred about 37,700 acres, and the Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2003 | AWR, bears, Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, Lolo National Forest, Yellowstone National Park
by Sherry Devlin, The Missoulian Environmentalists have asked U.S. District Judge Don Molloy to force the Forest Service to make good on its promise to provide more habitat protection for grizzly bears in the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirk mountains. In a motion filed with...
