by Mike Garrity | May 25, 2020 | bull trout, elk, Grizzly, lynx
Canadian lynx. Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service. What would you do if you caught Trump’s Forest Service trying to slip through huge clearcuts and bulldozing roads into an already over-cut area? How about if the Forest Service then denied the potential presence of...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 4, 2020 | Elk Creek, Grizzly, lynx
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit on April 3rd in Federal District Court in Great Falls, Montana to stop the Elk Smith Project on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The project seeks to non-commercially log and/or burn 10,331 acres in the Elk...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 16, 2018 | lynx
Originally posted here… A logging project proposed along the northwestern border of Yellowstone National Park has been halted by a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling. On Aug. 13, Judge Dana Christensen found in favor of the Native Ecosystems Council and the...
by Mike Garrity | May 31, 2017 | lynx
CONTACT: Mike Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406 459-5936 The Federal District Court in Missoula on Tuesday issued a Preliminary Injunction sought by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council against the Helena...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 20, 2017 | AWR, bears, elk, lynx
Two conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit in Federal District Court in Missoula Friday challenging the Stonewall Vegetation Project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest about 4 miles northwest of Lincoln,...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 25, 2016 | Associated Press, AWR, lynx
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Originally published here: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/24/us/ap-us-threatened-species-logging.html HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge blocked a logging project northeast of Yellowstone National Park until federal officials analyze the...