by Erik Gillberg | Jun 18, 2026 | clearcut, elk, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging
Clearcut Logging – photo by Steve Platt The Trump administration and some Democrats support “managing” our national forests like tree farms, not forest ecosystems, by calling for ever more logging and burning in a futile attempt to prevent wildfires....
by Erik Gillberg | Sep 5, 2025 | logging, NREPA, Yellowstone National Park
Buffalo Horn drainage in Gallatin Range. Photo by George Wuerthner There’s a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone National Park and comprising the core of the Greater Yellowstone...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 12, 2025 | logging, Manti–La Sal National Forest
Photo: US Forest Service Alliance for the Wild Rockies relies on private donations from individuals who want to protect the landscapes of the Rockies from destructive projects. As in this case, we cannot always recover the money we paid to hire an attorney. So, if you...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 27, 2025 | logging, USFS
Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. Photo by Vicki Anfinson If Trump and Musk really want to cut the Forest Service’s budget they need to go where the money is actually being wasted. That would be the Forest Service’s enormously subsidized logging projects that...
by Mike Garrity | May 15, 2024 | Endangered Species Act, logging
Photo: USFWS Having lost so many times in court because they keep breaking the law, the Forest Service has now turned to what are called “landscape scale treatments” where they refuse to tell the public how, when, and where they are going to clearcut and...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 23, 2023 | elk, Grizzly, logging, lynx, Yellowstone National Park
It’s absolutely one of the worst places in the country for clearcuts. So we’re thrilled that the Court agreed with us and halted the logging project. But going even further, the Court’s Order vacated the Forest Service’s approval of this logging and road-building...
