by Erik Gillberg | Jun 4, 2026 | goshawk, Pinyon Jay, sage grouse
Pinyon Jay – Photo by Dave Menke USFWS The Interior Board of Land Appeals vacated the BLM’s decision authorizing cutting and burning 560,000 acres of mainly pinyon-juniper woodlands and sagebrush habitat in southwest Utah in response to an appeal by Alliance for...
by Erik Gillberg | Jan 20, 2026 | BLM, Pinyon Jay, sage grouse
Public lands managed by the Dillon Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Photo by BLM If a person illegally burns something, it is called arson. But when the federal government decides to deforest and burn unspecified areas within a 905,000-acre area to...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 26, 2025 | Grizzly, grouse, lynx, sage grouse
Photo by USFS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a federal lawsuit to protect habitat for three rare wildlife species — grizzly bears, lynx, and sage grouse — on the Continental Divide, just north of Lemhi Pass, where Lewis and Clark first crossed the Continental...
by Erik Gillberg | Nov 17, 2025 | sage grouse
Sage Grouse – Photo by Richard Prodgers Greater sage grouse occupied more than 460,000 square miles across 13 Western states, including Montana, and three Canadian provinces before European settlement in the 1800s. But since that time, sagebrush ecosystems have...
by Mike Garrity | Jul 17, 2025 | sage grouse
Photo by USFWS The Forest Service authorized a Special Use Permit in March to allow a private company to clear-cut and bulldoze a 50-foot wide, 18.2-mile-long corridor through six National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas for construction of a gas pipeline from...
by Mike Garrity | May 22, 2025 | Gravelly Mountains, Grizzly, grouse, lynx, sage grouse
Gravelly Mountain Range – U.S. Forest Service The U.S. Forest Service cancelled an illegal public land logging project due to a recently-filed lawsuit by Montana conservation group Alliance for the Wild Rockies on May 20th. The illegal logging was scheduled to...
