by Mike Garrity | May 26, 2010 | AWR, elk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, wildlife
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT — Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service to stop the Ettien Ridge Fuels Reduction Project 22 miles south of Stanford, MT, in...
by Mike Garrity | May 10, 2010 | AWR, elk, goshawk, hunting, logging, opinion, pine
by Michael Garrity, Opinion Thanks to the IR for Eve Byron’s excellent article on the proposed Elliston Face timber sale (5-6-10), but there are a couple more important points for readers to consider that didn’t make it into the story. This is the fourth...
by Mike Garrity | May 2, 2010 | AWR, bears, elk, Elk Winter Range, forest, logging, lynx, pine
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT – Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2010 | AWR, bears, fire, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, roads
by Karl Puckett, Tribune staff writer Two environmental groups successfully appealed a plan by the Lewis and Clark National Forest to burn and log 763 acres of forest in the Benchmark Road corridor west of Augusta. The Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project was to use...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 11, 2010 | AWR, forest, logging, wildlife
by Nick Gevock Montana groups top in nation for fighting wildfire reduction projects Only one out of 50 U.S. Forest Service projects to reduce wildfire risk gets challenged in court nationwide, but in the region including Montana environmental groups sue at the...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 27, 2010 | AWR, logging, opinion, wilderness
by Steve Kelly What makes Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (S1470) so contentious? Its stated purpose: “To sustain the economic development and recreational use of National Forest System land and other public land in the state of Montana,...
