by Mike Garrity | May 12, 2004 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, forest, Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Kootenai National Forest, Lolo National Forest, roads
Associated Press MISSOULA (AP) – Seven environmental groups filed an administrative appeal Monday, saying a Forest Service plan doesn’t close enough roads to help protect grizzly bears in the Lolo, Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle national forests. Grizzly...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 20, 2004 | AWR, fish, logging, Lolo National Forest, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Gilbert (406) 443-0671 Damon Cox (406) 327-9320 Jeff Juel, The Ecology Center, (406) 728-5733 (HELENA) A U.S. Forest Service proposal to spend over a million dollars logging portions of three...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 9, 2003 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, forest, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A timber sale in the Kootenai National Forest on the Idaho border has been delayed as officials consider its impact on grizzly bears. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has withdrawn its approval for the White Pine timber sale, pressured...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 8, 2003 | AWR, bears, fire, Kootenai National Forest, logging, Lolo National Forest, roads
by Sonja Lee Great Falls Tribune Helena National Forest officials would like to harvest 20 million to 25 million board feet of commercial timber from an area that burned in the Snow Talon Fire near Lincoln. The August fire charred about 37,700 acres, and the Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 6, 2003 | AWR, forest, logging, Lolo National Forest, roads, wilderness
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has slapped down the Lolo National Forest’s plan for logging in areas burned during the 2000 wildfire season, saying the Forest Service did not take “the necessary hard look” at...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2003 | AWR, bears, forest, roads
from staff and wire reports MISSOULA — Conservationists are accusing the Forest Service of dragging its feet on a legal promise to start removing forest roads to help save endangered grizzly bears in the Idaho Panhandle and northwestern Montana. “We thought we...
