by Mike Garrity | Nov 7, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, hunting, wolves
by Matthew Brown, Associated Press UPDATE: With more than 150 wolves shot in the Northern Rockies so far this fall, a panel of federal judges on Tuesday is scheduled to consider an emergency halt to public hunts for the animals. Congress cleared the way for the hunts...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 4, 2011 | AWR, bears, fish, roads, wolves
by John S. Adams, Great Falls Tribune Capital Bureau Chief HELENA — A sweeping bill that would designate 23 million acres of roadless public lands in five Northern Rockies states as wilderness was reintroduced in Congress this week. The acreage falls in Montana,...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 18, 2011 | AWR, hunting, wolves
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 “Seventeen wolves have already been killed during Montana’s early archery wolf-hunting season and sixty wolves in Idaho’s wolf hunting season,” said Mike...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 18, 2011 | AWR, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer Four wolves were killed during Montana’s archery season, which closed Sunday. That concluded the state’s first official archery season for wolves, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The wolves that were...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 18, 2011 | AWR, elk, hunting, wildlife, wolves
by Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) – A federal court rejected a bid by conservationists for an immediate halt to wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana on Tuesday, but the judges said they would reconsider the request next month. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and others...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 18, 2011 | Associated Press, AWR, hunting, wolves
by The Associated Press BILLINGS — A federal appeals court on Tuesday turned down an emergency request by wildlife advocates seeking to stop gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies. But the court said judges will reconsider the issue in November. The ruling by the 9th...