by Erik Gillberg | Sep 10, 2024 | Bitterroot National Forest, wolverines
Image by Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot National Forest. The Alliance for the...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 9, 2021 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines, Yellowstone National Park
On March 8th, a federal court in Idaho ruled that a legal challenge to a natural gas pipeline can proceed. The lawsuit was filed by two grassroots conservation groups — Yellowstone to Uintas Connection and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies — and it challenges the...
by Mike Garrity | Jun 12, 2020 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines
For the second time in two days, the Trump administration conceded defeat to the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. The first time was when the Administration was trying to pretend roads magically disappear when the Forest Service dumps a pile of dirt in front of Forest...
by Mike Garrity | Apr 5, 2016 | AWR, wolverines
MATHEW BROWN Associated Press View the article here. BILLINGS — The Obama administration brushed over the threat that climate change poses to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator also known as the “mountain...
by Mike Garrity | Feb 29, 2016 | AWR, bears, lynx, wolverines
Four conservation groups filed a lawsuit in 2013 claiming the U.S. Forest Service needed to analyze impacts on species, habitat BY DILLON TABISH Originally published in the Flathead Beacon here. The Nature Conservancy has canceled plans to harvest timber on a large...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 9, 2014 | AWR, bears, fish, lynx, wolverines
Contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The federal district court in Montana reaffirmed and clarified its September 2014 ruling that the U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the National...
