by Mike Garrity | Feb 18, 2010 | AWR, logging, wilderness
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Sixteen former council members of the Montana Wilderness Association – including four past presidents – publicly denounced Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act on Wednesday, adding that MWA has compromised...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 14, 2010 | AWR, fish, forest, logging, mining, polar bear, roads, wildlife
by Jeff Barnard AP Environmental Writer Fish and Wildlife proposes another reversal of Bush policy, this time on bull trout habitat In another reversal of Bush administration Endangered Species Act policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to more than...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | AWR, fish, logging, mining, roads, wildlife
by Jeff Barnard, Ap Environmental Writer GRANTS PASS, Ore. — In another reversal of Bush administration Endangered Species Act policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to more than quadruple habitat protections for the bull trout, a fish that has been harmed...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2010 | AWR, fish, forest, logging
by Matthew Preusch, The Oregonian In a sharp course change from current federal policy, the Obama administration said Wednesday it wants far more of Oregon and four other western states set aside to protect a native, wide-ranging fish called the bull trout. It would...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 10, 2010 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, wilderness, wildlife
My name is Michael Garrity and I am the Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is a Helena, MT based conservation organization with over 2000 members. Our mission is to protect wildlife habitat in the Northern...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 14, 2009 | AWR, fish, forest, logging, wilderness
by Noelle Straub, E&E reporter Trying to satisfy everyone from wilderness advocates to timber companies, Sen. Jon Tester has proposed a new model for managing national forests. The Democrat’s controversial proposal, which he has dubbed the “Forest...
