by Mike Garrity | Nov 5, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 31, 2009 | AWR, bears, fish, Flathead National Forest, logging, roads
by Sonya Angelica Diehn (CN) – A U.S. Forest Service logging plan will harm threatened grizzly bears in Montana’s Flathead National Forest, three environmental groups say. The logging plan reopens portions of a closed road and keeps intact 10 culverts that...
by Mike Garrity | Aug 9, 2009 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, logging, roads, wilderness, wildlife
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian For more than three decades, millions of Montana federal acres have been de facto wilderness. Over the past few weeks, those slumbering lands have been shoved back into the spotlight. And last Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 17, 2009 | AWR, bears, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, forest, Kootenai National Forest, logging, roads, wilderness
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Michael Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies blasted Senator Tester’s logging bill as turning over management of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 13, 2009 | AWR, bears, roads, wilderness
by David Mark Carole King’s songs are tightly woven into the tapestry of American music. Flip on the radio and, before long, at least one of the singer-songwriter’s familiar tunes is likely to ring out. Starting with The Shirelles’ “Will You...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 9, 2009 | AWR, Crazy Mountains, elk, forest, Gallatin National Forest, logging, pine, roads
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff, French@billingsgazette.com or (406) 657-1387 Two environmental groups have sued for a second time to halt a timber sale and prescribed burn on the northwest side of the Crazy Mountains, despite changes made to the original plan to...