by Mike Garrity | Feb 23, 2011 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, logging, lynx, opinion, squirrels
by Michael Garrity, Opinion A Feb. 11 opinion column in the Tribune alleged that an appeal of the Benchmark logging proposal was somehow “irresponsible.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 7, 2011 | AWR, bears, elk, fish, hunting, logging, lynx, owls, roads, squirrels
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Butte, MT — Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court yesterday against the U.S. Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 27, 2011 | AWR, logging
A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week on a Big Hole Valley timber sale is being hailed by environmental groups as a precedent-setting decision. Susan Brown, a staff attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center, said the ruling is important...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 26, 2011 | AWR, forest, logging, roads
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Susan Jane Brown, Western Environmental Law Center (503) 914-1323 A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week has set a precedent by defining at what point...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 25, 2011 | AWR, California, logging, whales
by Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire A federal appeals court today rejected a government request that it rehear a case that set a precedent on how to interpret a 2008 Supreme Court ruling that seemed to limit the ability of environmental groups to put a stop to certain...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 15, 2011 | AWR, logging, lynx
by Bruce Finley, The Denver Post Federal lawyers have backed away from fighting a federal judge’s ruling that favors lynx, clearing the way for possible broader protection of the quick-pawed predators in Colorado and other Western states. U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
