by Mike Garrity | Jan 8, 2009 | AWR, bears, beetles, Flathead National Forest, forest, roads
HELENA – A federal appeals court says the Flathead National Forest failed to follow the grizzly bear standards in its Forest Plan when it approved the Moose Post-Fire Project in 2002. Under the project, about 20 miles north of Columbia Falls, more access was...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 24, 2008 | AWR, beetles, elk, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, roads
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over a 345-acre timber sale in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, charging the logging project will harm elk and goshawk habitat. “It will have to go through...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 2, 2008 | AWR, Crazy Mountains, elk, Gallatin National Forest, logging, roads, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council and a local resident, Sharon Hapner, filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon in Federal...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 22, 2007 | AWR, bears, fish, lynx, roads, wolverines
URGENT: Please act now to show support for the ONLY Wilderness Bill that would provide adequate protection for all the remaining intact wildlife and fish habitat (Roadless Lands) in the Northern Rockies The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Recovery Act – HR-1975 A...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 18, 2007 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, bison, buffalo, caribou, elk, logging, roads, wilderness
Lee Newspapers/Missoulian Bozeman Chronicle E&E Daily Associated Press Easterners, Westerners argue over wilderness bill by Mary Clare Jalonick WASHINGTON – Eastern and Western members of the U.S. House clashed sharply Thursday over legislation that would...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2006 | AWR, bears, forest, logging, roads, wildlife
by James Hagengruber Spokesman Review Staff Writer Environmentalists say logging would further threaten bears in Selkirks Helicopters hauling logs out of North Idaho’s grizzly bear country threaten the bears almost as much as using logging trucks, according to a...
