by Erik Gillberg | Jun 25, 2025 | NREPA, roads
Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an estimated 58 million acres of public Forest Service land to road-building, resource extraction, and development. The...
by Erik Gillberg | Mar 31, 2025 | AWR, NREPA
Custer-Gallatin National Forest next to Yellowstone National Park – photo by Custer-Gallatin National Forest On Thursday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act in the U.S. Senate...
by Erik Gillberg | Oct 3, 2024 | AWR, NREPA
Peering into the wildlife-rich habitat of the Buffalo Horn in the middle of the Gallatin Range. Photo courtesy George Wuerthner There’s a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone...
by Mike Garrity | May 19, 2023 | Grizzly, NREPA
Photo: Glenn Phillips Montana and the Northern Rockies are facing an unprecedented wave of development that is fracturing wildlife habitat, threatening water quality, and seeing vastly increased logging of our national forests under the guise of “restoration” and...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 26, 2019 | NREPA
New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D) has reintroduced sweeping legislation to permanently protect 23 million acres of pristine public lands and 1,800 miles of rivers and streams in five Western states, something she has pushed for more than a decade. The bill, H.R. 1321,...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 4, 2018 | NREPA
Originally published here. When U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen issued his the order that reversed the Trump administration’s decision to take Yellowstone ecosystem grizzly bears off the threatened species list he did so for the best of reasons: Isolated...
