by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2013 | AWR, bears, elk, forest, goshawk, lynx, wolverines
by Rob Chaney A timber sale around Lindbergh Lake is headed to court after planners and opponents disagreed over how beneficial it might be to old-growth forests and rare wildlife. Four Montana conservation groups sued to block the Glacier-Loon Timber Sale in Missoula...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2013 | AWR, lynx, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT — A Montana federal district court halted the proposed Cabin Gulch timber sale in the Helena National Forest last night. The logging was planned on 2,289 acres,...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2013 | Associated Press, AWR, lynx
by Associated Press A federal judge has blocked another Montana logging project because the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Services did not take the proper steps to determine whether lynx may be in the area. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen on Monday...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2013 | Associated Press, AWR, logging, lynx
by Associated Press A federal judge this week blocked three Montana logging projects in two national forests, saying the U.S. government did not properly examine the effects the projects might have on lynx and the threatened animal’s habitat. That makes four...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 24, 2013 | AWR, bears, beetles, bull trout, goshawk, logging, lynx, owls, roads, squirrels, Swan Valley, wildlife, woodpeckers
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Four conservation groups, Alliance fir the Wild Rockies, Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, and Native...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 10, 2013 | AWR, bears, lynx
by Brett French RED LODGE — To see how a wildfire can affect the landscape of the Beartooth Mountains, curious folks need drive no farther than 10 miles west of this mountain community, up the West Fork of Rock Creek. In 2008, the Cascade fire burned about 10,000...