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Learn about our ongoing work and success in holding our government agencies accountable to the laws that protect our ecosystems and species from habitat destruction caused by extractive industries.
Massive deforestation project that threatens grizzlies, lynx and wolverine halted
Photo by Michael Hoyt Thanks to our threat to sue the Forest Service over using a categorical exclusion to avoid analyzing impacts on bull trout, grizzly bears, and lynx, a massive deforestation project in Montana's Bitterroot Valley has been halted. The Forest...
The Alliance wins Ninth Circuit victory to protect imperiled Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears in Montana
Photo by Glenn Phillips The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council in their challenge to the Black Ram project on the Kootenai National Forest in Montana. The Ninth Circuit decision on February...
The Forest Service Loses Billions Subsidizing Logging
Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. Photo by Vicki Anfinson If Trump and Musk really want to cut the Forest Service’s budget they need to go where the money is actually being wasted. That would be the Forest Service’s enormously subsidized logging projects that...
The Alliance Challenges Immense Logging and Burning Project in Utah’s Manti La-Sal National Forest
Pinyon Jay - NPS/Sally King The Manti–La Sal National Forest stretches from central Utah to southeastern Utah and into Colorado. The 1,413,111-acre forest contains the La Sal Mountains, which are the second highest mountain range in Utah, and parts of the forest are...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Elk Habitat, Wildlife Corridors and Old Growth Forests in Montana
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit in federal court in Montana against a road-building and commercial logging project on public lands in the Big Belt Mountains of Montana. The...
Why the Alliance Is Suing Yellowstone National Park over Its Bison Management Plan
Photo by the National Park Service One might think that the National Park Service and the State of Montana, the two entities charged with stewardship of American bison, our national mammal, could do a better job. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Council on...
Alliance sues Flathead Forest Service to stop massive clearcutting west of Whitefish, Montana
Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service If anyone wonders why we’re taking the Forest Service to court over the Round Star logging project, there is one primary reason: lynx critical habitat is the worst place for clearcuts. The surest way to drive lynx to extinction...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies challenges BLM plan to gut the Garnet Mountain Range
Photo: BLM The Garnet Mountains lie between the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers, stretching from Bonner to east of Drummond, Montana. They are south of the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat Wilderness areas and provide critical habitat to bull trout, grizzly bears,...
Top Ten things Alliance for the Wild Rockies did to protect the Northern Rockies Ecosystem in 2024
Please donate today or on Giving Tuesday to help us do more in 2025. We and our planet need your help. Mike Garrity Alliance for the Wild Rockies PO Box 505 Helena MT 59624 Here are some of the achievements made possible this year by the generous support of long-time...
Don’t Mourn. Organize.
Photo: Canada Lynx courtesy US Fish and Wildlife Service During the last Trump Administration our small, gritty organization, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, sued the Trump Administration 18 times to protect our planet and we won 16 times. We plan to do it again....
Wolves need your help
Photo: USDA One of the reasons that you are probably a supporter of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies is you care about wolves. But wolves are in trouble! The goal of the wolf "management plans" is to exterminate wolves from the Northern Rockies once and for all. They...
NREPA would Designate all Greater Yellowstone Wilderness Study Areas as Wilderness
Peering into the wildlife-rich habitat of the Buffalo Horn in the middle of the Gallatin Range. Photo courtesy George Wuerthner There's a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone...
Old Growth Logging Challenged in Bitterroot National Forest
Image by Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot National Forest. The Alliance for the...
Environmental Groups Save Ashley National Forest Roadless Areas from Bulldozers and Chainsaws
Photo: USFS The great news is the Ashley National Forest has been saved from a "landscape scale" deforestation plan in which the Forest Service planned to bulldoze in skid trails to log and burn up to 147,000 acres (230 square miles!) of Inventoried...
Court Halts Massive Illegal Old Growth Logging Project in Montana’s Little Belt Mountains
Photo: USFS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed their lawsuit to stop the Horsefly project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in April 2021. The project called for cutting and burning trees on 10,343 acres, which is more...
Forest Service must follow the law like everyone else
Photo: Ryan Hagerty USFWS A recent column by the Anaconda Sportsmen Club disparaged the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for challenging the illegal Pintler Face logging project in southwest Montana in federal court. What they failed to disclose to you is that federal...
Alliance says “Stop the Chop” in Colville National Forest
Photo: USFWS Having lost so many times in court because they keep breaking the law, the Forest Service has now turned to what are called "landscape scale treatments" where they refuse to tell the public how, when, and where they are going to clearcut and bulldoze new...
Alliance Stops 100 Miles of Roads and 5,000 Acres of Clearcuts on Montana Public Lands
Big Belt mountains looking northeast from just outside Helena, Montana. Photo: Montanabw, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and its co-Plaintiff, Native Ecosystems Council, have prevailed in stopping the Middleman project in Montana’s Big Belt Mountains,...
Alliance asks Forest Service to Close Bison Hunting Area Next to Yellowstone National Park Before Someone Gets Killed
Image by Daniel Lloyd Blunk-Fernández Pointing to the danger to residents, landowners, other hunters and the public during the bison hunt/cull this year, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies recently sent a letter to Mary Erickson, Supervisor of the Custer Gallatin...
Sage Grouse “collaborative conservation effort” an on-going disaster
The numbers don't lie -- and the sage grouse "collaborative conservation effort" is a total and on-going failure. There were 16 million Greater Sage Grouse before Europeans arrived and began the destruction of the "sagebrush sea" in the Great Plains. The iconic birds...
Alliance Files Lawsuit to Restore Endangered Species Act Protections for Wolves
Let's get right to the point, the end goal of the wolf 'management plans' in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming is to once again exterminate them from the Northern Rockies. They think the only good wolf is a dead wolf. Wolves need your help. The wolf slaughter is out of...
Massive “Pintler Face” logging and burning project on Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest challenged in federal court
Photo:Lisa Hupp/USFWS Click here to read the complaint filed in Federal Court. It’s absolutely one of the worst places in the state for clearcuts. For the Forest Service to propose a project like this in essential habitat for lynx, grizzly bear, and wolverine -- which...
Taking on the Forest Service in Federal Court
Bull trout. Image: US Fish and Wildlife Service Forest Service plan to log old growth and bulldoze logging roads in bull trout critical habitat challenged in federal court There’s so much wrong with this project, so many illegalities, omissions, and disregard for the...
Top Ten Victories by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in 2023
Photo: Glen Phillips Thank you all for helping us make a difference this year. Here's to more in 2024! 1) Wolverines listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act after 20-year conservation effort. 2) Federal Court - Feds Must Proceed with Grizzly Bear Recovery...
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