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 | Mar 31, 2010 | AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
contacts Jenny Harbine, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Suzanne Asha Stone, Defenders of Wildlife, (208) 861-4655 Louisa Willcox, Natural Resources Defense Council, (406) 222-9561 Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, (575) 534-0360 States plan to kill even...
by Mike Garrity | Dec 1, 2009 | AWR, wolves
Editorial Not everyone was happy when the gray wolf population in the Northern Rockies, near extinction in the mid-1970’s, staged a remarkable comeback under the protections of the Endangered Species Act. By the end of last year there were about 1,650 in...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 17, 2009 | AWR, Gallatin National Forest, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Montana’s inaugural wolf season ended Monday after the state came close to the predetermined 75-wolf quota. As of Monday, hunters had reported shooting 72 wolves, mainly in the western half of the state, in the first-ever...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian KALISPELL – When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area’s wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. They were wrong....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, beehives, bison, buffalo, cattle, coyotes, hunting, Lewis and Clark National Forest, sheep, wolves
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer When members of the Ayers family snapped photographs of a grizzly bear spotted on their ranch north of Fort Benton in the early summer, they were documenting the return of the species to its former home on the range. “I...
