by Mike Garrity | Sep 2, 2021 | bears, Grizzly, roads
Photo by Glenn Phillips, www.glennphillipsphoto.com. Misclassified roads in our national forests probably pose the most imminent threat to grizzly habitat today — and today there are many more such roads than there were in 1993. Montana’s Gov. Greg Gianforte...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 9, 2014 | AWR, bears, forest, Hebgen Lake, logging, lynx, roads
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer A timber sale along Hebgen Lake is on hold until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analyzes possible threats to grizzly bears and Canadian lynx. Last Friday, Great Falls District Court Judge Brian Morris agreed with two...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 26, 2014 | AWR, logging, roads, Swan Valley
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Federal District Court in Missoula ruled yesterday for four conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, and Native...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 26, 2014 | AWR, bears, bull trout, elk, forest, roads, Stillwater State Forest, Swan Valley, timber
by Dillon Tabish A federal judge has halted a logging project near Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley, siding with conservation groups that argued the U.S. Forest Service had disobeyed environmental laws. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Thursday blocked the...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 12, 2014 | AWR, BLM, logging, lynx, roads, timber, wildlife
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Federal officials have halted a timber sale near Ovando and agreed, with two conservation groups, to analyze the impacts on the federally threatened Canada lynx. In an order released Sept. 8, the Bureau of Land Management remanded its...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 10, 2014 | AWR, BLM, Elkhorn, map, mining, roads
Conservation Group Sues over Right-of-way to Jefferson County Mine Alliance for the Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit to Stop Mine Ore Road in Elkhorn Wildlife Management Area Copy of Compliant (PDF) Locator Map (jpg) BLM Environmental Assessment (PDF) Golden Asset Access...
