by Mike Garrity | Nov 20, 2009 | AWR, beetles, fire, forest, logging
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Author and ecologist George Weurthner told a full house at the University of Montana-Helena Thursday night that if they’re going to do anything about the pine beetle epidemic in the mountains around the city, that they should...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 19, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Logging plans in the Kootenai National Forest have been challenged by an environmental group that argues new road-building will ruin chances for grizzly bear survival. “The grizzly numbers there continue to decline every...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 18, 2009 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Anne Henderson MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) – Environmentalists say the U.S. Forest Service is paving the way to grizzly bear deaths by opening one of America’s five remaining grizzly bear habitats to road construction and logging. The Alliance for the Wild...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 18, 2009 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
contacts Liz Sedler, AWR, (208) 263-5281 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in Federal District Court in Missoula on Monday challenging the U.S. Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, wilderness
by Paul Edwards, Guest Columnist Well, finally – Sen. Jon Tester and a few strange bedfellows have floated a logging bill that everyone who works, has worked or hopes to work for one of four struggling lumber mills or one bankrupt cardboard box-maker can...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 5, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...
