by Erik Gillberg | Jan 26, 2026 | wolverines
Photo by Steve Kroschel – Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Wolverines in the lower 48 States were trapped, hunted, and poisoned to near extinction in the late 1800s and early 1900s and have not recovered, just the opposite in fact. It took court...
by Erik Gillberg | Dec 16, 2025 | AWR, Grizzly, lynx, wolverines, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
Photo by National Park Service For grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, wolverine, and bison there is no “boundary” around Yellowstone National Park. The forests in this area — the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — extend beyond Yellowstone Park’s boundaries and...
by Mike Garrity | May 20, 2025 | lynx, Uintas-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, wolverines
Soapstone Basin in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest – Photo by Recreation.gov What happens when government agencies try to sidestep the law and exclude the public on major projects? Well, sometimes they get away with it — but not this time. The...
by Mike Garrity | Mar 17, 2025 | Grizzly, lynx, wolverines
Photo by Michael Hoyt Thanks to our threat to sue the Forest Service over using a categorical exclusion to avoid analyzing impacts on bull trout, grizzly bears, and lynx, a massive deforestation project in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley has been halted. The Forest...
by Mike Garrity | 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...