by Mike Garrity | Feb 28, 2012 | AWR, bears, elk, logging, lynx, pine, roads
by Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over a logging and habitat improvement project proposed on 3,000 acres of Mount Fleecer. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed suit in...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 22, 2011 | AWR, forest, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, wolverines
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council are pleased to announce that the Lewis and Clark National Forest has withdrawn the planned Blakenship Vegetation...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 11, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Forest Service has asked a judge to lift his block of a logging project near an endangered grizzly population in northwestern Montana, saying a new analysis shows bears don’t frequent that area of the Kootenai...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2011 | AWR, bears, Helena National Forest, logging, lynx, opinion, roads, wildlife
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, IR Your Turn A Nov. 1 article in the Independent Record reported that a “collaborative” group developed and submitted to the Forest Service a proposal to log thousands of acres in and around an inventoried roadless area...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 3, 2011 | AWR, hunting, logging, mining
contacts Jon Houston, Maloney, (202) 225-7944 Eben Burnham-Snyder, Markey, (202) 225-2836 Adam Sarvana, Grijalva, (202) 225-2435 Mike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 –HR 3334 would preserve 23 million acres in Northern Rockies–...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 20, 2011 | AWR, bears, fish, forest, logging, lynx, University of Montana
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian A lawsuit challenging a timber sale north of Seeley Lake shows either the U.S. Forest Service can’t follow the law or some environmental groups can’t agree to work together. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the...