by Mike Garrity | Oct 12, 2012 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Conservation groups filed a lawsuit Thursday to stop wolverine trapping, the same day the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission approved new rules for wolf trapping. The Western Environmental Law Center requested an...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 11, 2012 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Laura Zuckerman, Reuters SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Conservationists on Thursday asked a state judge to end trapping of wolverines in Montana at a time when fewer than 300 of the elusive animals roam the Northern Rockies and Northern Cascades. Montana is the...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 11, 2012 | Associated Press, AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Associated Press BILLINGS — A coalition of groups trying to halt wolverine trapping in Montana filed a lawsuit Thursday that aims to provide new protections for an animal scientists warn will be imperiled by climate change in coming decades. Montana is the only...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 11, 2012 | AWR, trapping, wolverines
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Eight conservation groups and one individual are asking a Helena judge to stop Montana’s wolverine trapping season, saying their population is “imperiled” and that the animal is a candidate for protection under...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 17, 2012 | AWR, goshawk, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Little Belt Mountain, logging, wolverines
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer Two conservation organizations are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a plan to log mountain pine beetle-infested trees in the Little Belt Mountains. Lewis and Clark National Forest contends that with the infested trees at risk of...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 14, 2012 | AWR, goshawk, Little Belt Mountain, logging, lynx, pileated woodpecker, wolverines
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit on Friday in Federal District Court against the Forest Service to stop the Little Belt Mountain...