by Mike Garrity | Feb 29, 2012 | AWR, bears, fish, logging, Lolo National Forest, lynx, roads, wildlife
by Eve Byron, Independent Record A proposed project that includes logging, roadwork and weed spraying on national forest land north of Seeley Lake is pitting a wide-ranging array of organizations against four environmental groups that filed a lawsuit opposing the...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 28, 2012 | AWR, bears, elk, logging, lynx, pine, roads
by Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over a logging and habitat improvement project proposed on 3,000 acres of Mount Fleecer. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed suit in...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 11, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Forest Service has asked a judge to lift his block of a logging project near an endangered grizzly population in northwestern Montana, saying a new analysis shows bears don’t frequent that area of the Kootenai...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 8, 2011 | AWR, bears, Helena National Forest, logging, lynx, opinion, roads, wildlife
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, IR Your Turn A Nov. 1 article in the Independent Record reported that a “collaborative” group developed and submitted to the Forest Service a proposal to log thousands of acres in and around an inventoried roadless area...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 4, 2011 | AWR, bears, fish, roads, wolves
by John S. Adams, Great Falls Tribune Capital Bureau Chief HELENA — A sweeping bill that would designate 23 million acres of roadless public lands in five Northern Rockies states as wilderness was reintroduced in Congress this week. The acreage falls in Montana,...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 16, 2011 | AWR, bears, beetles, fish, forest, goshawk, Lolo National Forest, lynx, owls, roads, wildlife
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Ecosystems Council, and Montana Ecosystems Defense Council filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service to stop the Colt Summit Timber Sale on the Lolo National Forest,...
