by Mike Garrity | Mar 21, 2013 | AWR, bears, logging, lynx, wolverines
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer An environmental group is suing for a second time to stop a timber sale in the Hebgen Basin. On Wednesday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missoula...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 18, 2013 | AWR, bears, Granite Butte Lookout, Helena National Forest, pine, polar bear, squirrels, wolverines, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week seeking to force the federal government into listing the whitebark pine as a threatened or endangered species. In July 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that the...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 8, 2013 | AWR, wolverines
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Wolverine trapping in Montana effectively ended on Monday after a court case challenging its legality looks to last beyond the season’s end. And an anticipated federal rule could put the rare predator on the Endangered Species...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 7, 2013 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Eve Byron, Independent Record AGENCY VOWS TO CHALLENGE THE OVERALL LAWSUIT SEEKING TO HALT THE ACTIVITY Montana’s 2012/2013 wolverine trapping season essentially ended before it started, after Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks decided not to contest a...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 7, 2013 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Wolverines won’t be trapped in Montana this season and possibly for many years to come. On Monday, Lewis and Clark County District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock agreed to cancel a Jan. 10 hearing that could have stopped...
by Mike Garrity | Jan 7, 2013 | AWR, polar bear, trapping, wolverines
contact Matthew Bishop, Western Environmental Law Center, (406) 324-8011 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 (Helena) Montana District Court Judge Sherlock...