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 15, 2009 | AWR, Glacier National Park, wilderness, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
by George Ochenski One of Montana’s greatest assets is Glacier National Park, where the sheer beauty of the majestic landscape overwhelms visitors with stunning vistas of waterfalls, aquamarine lakes, hanging glaciers on towering peaks and abundant wildlife....
by Mike Garrity | Nov 5, 2009 | AWR, bears, forest, Gallatin National Forest, goshawk, logging, roads, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...
by Mike Garrity | Nov 1, 2009 | AWR, bears, deer, elk, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian October is always a lousy month to be a grizzly bear, and this October was worse than usual. Eight of the threatened bears were killed in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem last month, compared to the 10-year October average of...
by Mike Garrity | Oct 25, 2009 | AWR, cattle, elk, hunting, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
by Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times Reporting from Gardiner, Mont. – Wolf 527 was a survivor. She lived through a rival pack’s crippling 12-day siege of her den. When another pair of wolves laid down stakes in her territory, she killed the mother and...
by Mike Garrity | Sep 14, 2009 | AWR, hunting, wolves, Yellowstone National Park
Editorial The gray wolf is a top predator, an essential part of the ecosystem, a symbol of the West. And it’s a symbol best displayed, not as pelts on a wall, but by packs in the wild. Exterminated like vermin, a bounty on their heads, the gray wolf was hunted...
