by Mike Garrity | Feb 26, 2010 | AWR, fire, forest, pine
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Critics of Ashland-area plan fear it would damage game habitat A fuel reduction project northeast of Ashland that was pulled last year after a threatened lawsuit has been repackaged with another one for public review, but it still...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 21, 2009 | AWR, Custer National Forest, deer, elk, fire, Gallatin National Forest, pine, wild turkey
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Under threat of a lawsuit, the Custer National Forest has pulled a 10,000-acre fuels reduction project northeast of Ashland. Acting Ashland District Ranger Doug Epperly announced the decision in a letter dated Sept. 14. “We...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 9, 2009 | AWR, Crazy Mountains, elk, forest, Gallatin National Forest, logging, pine, roads
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff, French@billingsgazette.com or (406) 657-1387 Two environmental groups have sued for a second time to halt a timber sale and prescribed burn on the northwest side of the Crazy Mountains, despite changes made to the original plan to...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 6, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Gallatin National Forest, owls, pine
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest withdrew the Barton Springs Timber sale on February 25, 2008 after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 7, 2004 | AWR, bears, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, elk, fish, forest, goshawk, Grand Teton National Park, logging, lynx, owls, pine, roads, Targhee National Forest, wildlife, wolverines, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
contacts Dr. Sara Jane Johnson, Native Ecosystems Council, (406) 285-3611 Michael Garrity, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Jeff Juel, The Ecology Center, (406) 728-2320 Conservation Groups File suit challenging illegal Forest Plan for Targhee...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 4, 2003 | AWR, bears, Cabinet Mountains, Kootenai National Forest, pine
MISSOULA—In a letter to the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was withdrawing its decision to give a green light to the White Pine timber sale on the Kootenai National Forest. The Forest Service must now initiate “formal...
