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...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 1, 2016 | AWR, NREPA
By Michael Garrity Originally published in The Missoulian here. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, which lives up to its name, would protect the best of the last intact ecosystems and wildlands in the Rockies. For the first time, it has been introduced in...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 11, 2016 | AWR, Legislation, NREPA
By Michael Wright – Chronicle Staff Writer Originally published here. An environmental group’s proposal to designate roadless areas in the western United States as wilderness has been introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time after more than two decades...
