by Mike Garrity | Jun 27, 2008 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, elk, wildlife
by The Standard News Service Helena – A federal timber sale in the Mount Fleecer area southwest of Butte should be stopped because it would violate a Forest Service plan for wildlife and trees, environmental groups say in a lawsuit against the agency and its...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 15, 2007 | AWR, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, elk, Gallatin National Forest, Gravely Mountains, logging, wildlife
Contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon in Federal District Court in Helena against the U.S....
by Mike Garrity | Jul 8, 2006 | AWR, bears, forest, logging, roads, wildlife
by James Hagengruber Spokesman Review Staff Writer Environmentalists say logging would further threaten bears in Selkirks Helicopters hauling logs out of North Idaho’s grizzly bear country threaten the bears almost as much as using logging trucks, according to a...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 6, 2006 | AWR, bears, hunting, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Mike Bader Federal officials with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) have announced plans to remove grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park region from the list of federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act. More commonly known as...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 19, 2004 | AWR, bears, goshawk, lynx, wildlife
In recognition of increasing biological evidence, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies board of directors recently expanded AWR’s active area of concern in the greater Wild Rockies to the Uinta and Wasatch Mountain Ranges in Utah and south into the Dixie National...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 3, 2004 | Associated Press, AWR, Gallatin National Forest, logging, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Associated Press HELENA – A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a timber sale in the Gallatin National Forest that environmentalists claim would damage wildlife habitat near Yellowstone National Park, an attorney said Sunday. The 9th U.S. Circuit...
