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...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 16, 2003 | AWR, forest, logging, roads
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Staff Writer Seven appeals have been filed in opposition to a Helena National Forest management plan for the Clancy/Unionville area south of town. Five of the appeals came from motorized vehicle proponents, who mainly claim that the...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 27, 2002 | AWR, hike, roads, Summer Field Trips
Western Montana/Northern Idaho Area Hikes Protect Roadless Areas July 27 Bob Clark with the Great Burn Study Group takes us into the Great Burn proposed wilderness area near Granite Peak to monitor for illegal off-road vehicle activity. The Great Burn is one of the...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 25, 2001 | AWR, roads
To: All Activists From: Steve Holmer The Bush Administration and Western Republicans in Congress may try to roll back the roadless area protection policy to allow for new oil and gas development, commercial logging and road construction. The Bush Administration has...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 22, 2001 | AWR, logging, roads, Tongass National Forest
prepared by Mike Anderson, The Wilderness Society Summary The final roadless area conservation rule prohibits road building and logging in national forest roadless areas with some exceptions, such as logging to reduce the risk of unnaturally intense fires. The rule...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 27, 2000 | AWR, forest, roads
by Mike Dombeck Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Twenty years of local planning efforts, wilderness debates, appeals, lawsuits, and injunctions have not solved the issue of long-term management of some 50 million acres of roadless...
