by Mike Garrity | Mar 28, 2011 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer After years of legal gridlock, conservation groups and the U.S. Department of Interior Friday reached an agreement on gray wolf management that, if approved, would remove federal protection for the animals in Montana and Idaho....
by Mike Garrity | Feb 17, 2011 | AWR, cattle, elk, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, The Independent Record In a bold move against federal authority of gray wolves in Montana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer has called for entire packs to be killed in the Bitterroot Valley to protect the dwindling elk population there, and has directed Montana...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 13, 2011 | AWR, beetles, forest, Gallatin National Forest, lynx, Nez Perce National Forest, wildlife
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 (Missoula) Last summer Federal District Judge Donald Molloy ruled in favor of four conservation groups who took the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) to court claiming the...
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 | Aug 6, 2010 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Eve Byron, Reporter A federal court judge in Missoula has put gray wolves back on the list of animals covered under the Endangered Species Act, stopping wolf hunts in Montana and Idaho. In his ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sided with a...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 25, 2010 | AWR, pine, wildlife
by Sara Jane Johnson, Director of the Native Ecosystems Council Ellen Simpson, the corporate lobbyist for the Montana Wood Products Association, claimed in a recent Your Turn that it is disingenuous for the Native Ecosystems Council and the Alliance for the Wild...
