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 | Jul 30, 2009 | AWR, bears, elk, lynx, moose, wildlife
by Eve Byron – Independent Record A federal court judge put a halt Wednesday to construction of a biathlon course near MacDonald Pass west of Helena. In issuing his summary judgment ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy said that an investigation of...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2009 | Associated Press, AWR, fish, grouse, logging, lynx, mining, owls, wildlife
by Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to take a new look at how much habitat needs to be protected for the bull trout – in the latest Obama administration rollback of Bush administration reductions in the...
by Mike Garrity | May 28, 2009 | AWR, lynx, wildlife
by Rob Chaney of the Misoulian Warmer weather will leave the endangered lynx isolated on islands of high-altitude habitat unless the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works to expand its critical territory, a group of wildlife advocates argues in court. The Montana-based...
by Mike Garrity | May 27, 2009 | AWR, bobcats, Gallatin National Forest, Lewis and Clark National Forest, lynx
contacts Kristina Johnson, (415) 977-5619, Kristina.Johnson@sierraclub.org Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936, garritymichael@yahoo.com Megan Corrigan, (303) 546-0214, megan@nativeecosystems.org Endangered lynx will need more room to roam as climate changes, groups...
by Mike Garrity | May 26, 2009 | AWR, lynx
by Patrick Reis, Greenwire The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is being sued by a coalition of environmental groups that says recent expansions to the Canada lynx’s protected habitat are still insufficient to protect the endangered cat from climate change. The...
