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Conservation Groups Sue to Stop Montana Wolverine Trapping Season
by Associated Press BILLINGS — A coalition of groups trying to halt wolverine trapping in Montana filed a lawsuit Thursday that aims to provide new protections for an animal scientists warn will be imperiled by climate change in coming decades. Montana is the only...
Local Groups Sue to Stop Wolverine Trapping
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Eight conservation groups and one individual are asking a Helena judge to stop Montana's wolverine trapping season, saying their population is "imperiled" and that the animal is a candidate for protection under federal statutes. The...
Water Supply Less Vulnerable to Fire
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer This summer's Millie fire prompted renewed calls for thinning the forests south of Bozeman to protect the city's water supply from fire. However, upgrades to the water plant are nullifying the argument that the water supply...
Suit to Halt Gallatin National Forest Projects in Bozeman Watershed & East Boulder Creek
Bozeman Watershed (png) East Boulder Creek (PDF) Water Supply Less Vulnerable to Fire Environmental Groups Sue to Stop Logging Projects Conservations Groups Sue Over Gallatin National Forest Logging Projects Conservation Groups File Lawsuit...
Conservation Groups Sue Over Little Belt Logging
by Associated Press GREAT FALLS — Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service arguing the agency should have completed a more thorough environmental review of a plan to cut down trees killed by mountain pine beetles in the Little Belt...
Groups Sue Over Little Belts Beetle-kill Logging
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer Two conservation organizations are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a plan to log mountain pine beetle-infested trees in the Little Belt Mountains. Lewis and Clark National Forest contends that with the infested trees at risk of...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Stop Herbicide spraying and Logging on 17,000 Acres in Little Belt Mountains
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit on Friday in Federal District Court against the Forest Service to stop the Little Belt Mountain...
Environmentalists Sue Over Idaho Logging Project
by The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two environmental groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a planned logging project in north-central Idaho because they contend the logging will violate the Endangered Species Act. Alliance for the Wild Rockies and...
Logging and Road Building Habitat Threat in Nez Perce National Forest
Environmentalists Sue Over Idaho Logging Project Conservation groups file lawsuit to stop logging and road-building in Nez Perce National Forest Complaint, September 6, 2012 (PDF)
Conservation groups file lawsuit to stop logging and road-building in Nez Perce National Forest
contact Gary Macfarlane, Ecosystem Defense Director, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Moscow, ID — The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Clearwater filed a...
Grassroots Conservation Organizations Notice Feds of Impending Wolf Litigation; Wyoming’s Wolves to be Shot En Masse
contacts Wendy Keefover, WildEarth Guardians (Colorado), (303) 573-4898, Ext. 1162 Mike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies (Montana), (406) 459-5936 Duane Short, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance (Wyoming), (307) 742-7978 Denise Boggs, Conservation Congress...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Stop Logging and Road-building in the Big Belt Mountains
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Kelly, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 586-4421 Helena, MT — The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit on Thursday in Federal...
Forest Service project near Deep Creek going to court
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Two conservation groups are suing the Helena National Forest to try to stop a vegetation management project near Townsend. The Cabin Gulch Vegetation Treatment and Project involves logging and burning trees on 2,891 acres over a...
Groups say Wolf Traps Threaten Lynx, File Notice they May Sue the State
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Four conservation organizations filed a notice Tuesday of their intent to sue the state, claiming that allowing trapping in Montana kills and injures Canada lynx, which is a species listed as threatened under the federal Endangered...
Lynx
Lynx Trapping Threat Groups say Wolf Traps Threaten Lynx, File Notice they May Sue the State Groups Prepare to Sue to Protect Lynx; FWP says Trapping Incidental Lynx Habitat Protected Federal Judge halts Eastern Idaho Logging...
Groups Prepare to Sue to Protect Lynx; FWP says Trapping Incidental
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer Four conservation groups served notice of intent to sue the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission on Tuesday over the incidental trapping of the rare forest-dwelling Canada lynx, a "threatened" species under the Endangered...
Alliance Petition Montana to Halt Trapping of Rare Wolverine
contact Matthew Bishop, Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center, (406) 324-8011 (office), or (406) 422-9866 (mobile) Helena, Mont. — The Western Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and seven other local conservation groups and...
Groups Call for Halt to Wolverine Trapping
by John S. Adams, Tribune Capital Bureau HELENA — In 2007, a wolverine fitted with a GPS tracking device summited Glacier National Park's highest peak, Mount Cleveland, in the middle of winter. Known as "M3" to researchers, the wolverine climbed the last 4,900 feet to...
Conservation Groups Urge Montana to Halt Wolverine Trapping
by John S. Adams, reports for the Great Falls Tribune HELENA, Mont. — Eight conservation and sportsman's groups are calling on the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks to halt wolverine trapping in the state until populations of the elusive alpine carnivore...
Colt Summit Timber Sale Project Halted
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Kelly, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 886-2011 Calling it "a great win for the lynx," Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies,...
Feds Scrap Logging Plan; Fire Fears Return
by Brandon Loomis, The Salt Lake Tribune Environmentalists celebrate, but project could return Federal foresters have pulled back from logging a high-country swath of spruce in southern Utah, adding another twist to a plan that has generated years of controversy...
Successful Appeal Halts Dixie National Forest Logging Project
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Utah Environmental Congress and Native Ecosystems Council are pleased to announce that the Dixie National Forest has withdrawn the planned...
Colt Summit Timber Sale Project Halted
contact Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan (406) 886-2011 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Calling it "a great win for the lynx," Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies,...
Environmental Laws are Essential: U.S. Government Needs to Follow the Guidelines, Requirements it has Established
by Michael Garrity and Carole King, Guest Column If history has taught us anything, it's that America is a much better place when environmental laws are enforced. We need to make sure that people and organizations whose stated mission is to protect and enforce such...
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