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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.
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...
Great News! The Feds Must Proceed with Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Bitterroot Mountains Wilderness
Photo: Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Recovery of endangered grizzly bears in the lower 48 states hinges on critical genetic connectivity between the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental grizzlies provided by the Bitterroot Mountains. Located on the border of central...
For Bioregional Cooperation: an Interview With Mike Garrity of Alliance for the Wild Rockies
Pilot Peak, Beartooth Range, Greater Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. BY MICHELLE RENEE MATISONS If ever there is a time for cooperative ecological action it is now, and there are plenty of opportunities for engagement in the West. The Rocky Mountain system/...
U.S. Forest Service logging makes a mockery of Biden’s climate pledge
Once again, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Center on Biological Diversity and Council on Wildlife and Fish are challenging the Biden administration’s Forest Service on yet another massive clearcutting. This time it’s the South Plateau Project, right on the border...
Alliance for Wild Rockies halts degradation of Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
Photo: George Jordan, USFWS In what was undoubtedly one of the most bizarre attempts to “save” a handful of lake grayling, Biden’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and Montana Trout Unlimited tried to throw the...
Alliance Stops Massive Logging Project in Lynx and Grizzly Habitat
It’s absolutely one of the worst places in the country for clearcuts. So we’re thrilled that the Court agreed with us and halted the logging project. But going even further, the Court’s Order vacated the Forest Service’s approval of this logging and road-building...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies stops Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear habitat destruction
Without question, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears are the most isolated and threatened population in Montana. The bad news is that this already small population is going downhill so fast it’s threatened with irreversible inbreeding. The good news is the Alliance for...
Alliance wins court challenge against widespread illegal motorized use on National Forests
Photo: Park Service For decades the Forest Service has gotten away with calling hundreds, if not thousands, of roads on national forests “closed” when they’re not. As is well known and documented, illegal use of the roads continues when people drive around the fences,...
Federal Court Halts Pipeline Construction in Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
Photo: George Jordan, USFWS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is thrilled to announce the U.S. District Court granted our request for a Preliminary Injunction to immediately stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s construction of a permanent water pipeline in the...
Federal Court Halts Illegal Logging to Save Endangered Grizzly Bears in NW Montana
Photo: Glen Phillips Thanks to a successful court challenge by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, over 10,000 acres of grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Montana will not be decimated by commercial logging. In late June, our lawsuit in a federal district court in...
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