by Mike Garrity | Oct 7, 2010 | AWR, bears, forest, goshawk, logging, pileated woodpecker, roads, wildlife
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Priest Lake, Idaho—A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in Federal District Court in Idaho yesterday challenging the Forest Service’s decision to go...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 1, 2010 | AWR, bears, Gallatin National Forest, logging, mining, roads, wolverines, wolves
by Gazette Staff The Gallatin National Forest has withdrawn its East Boulder Fuels Reduction Project to re-examine the project in the wake of the re-listing of gray wolves. “We wanted to do some more analysis because it’s an endangered species,” said...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 26, 2010 | AWR, bears, beetles, elk, forest, goshawk, logging, lynx, roads
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Helena, MT — The Helena National Forest announced on August 20 that they are pulling their decision to log the Elliston Face Fuels Reduction timber sale. The Alliance for the...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 15, 2010 | AWR, bears, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads, Yellowstone National Park
by Brad Fuqua, The Western News U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last week issued a temporary restraining order on three proposed logging projects in Kootenai National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies petitioned the court for the temporary restraining order...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 4, 2010 | AWR, logging, roads, wilderness
by John S. Adams, Triune Capitol Bureau HELENA — A new Senate committee rewrite of Sen. Jon Tester’s forest bill is circulating among members of the group that helped draft the original measure, but some of the original bills supporters say the proposed changes...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 23, 2010 | AWR, bears, fire, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, logging, lynx, roads
by Karl Puckett, Tribune staff writer Two environmental groups successfully appealed a plan by the Lewis and Clark National Forest to burn and log 763 acres of forest in the Benchmark Road corridor west of Augusta. The Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project was to use...
