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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...
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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...
Groups Sue to Stop Forest Thinning
by Jim Mann, The Daily Inter Lake Environmental groups have sued to stop pre-commercial thinning work on the Flathead National Forest, raising arguments that are similar to those applied in two previous lawsuits targeting timber sales. The Alliance for the Wild...
Federal Judge Rules for Conservation Groups — Stops Forest Service Logging in Lynx Habitat on Border of Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council challenged the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plans to log 7,000 acres of lodgepole...
Federal Judge Rules for Conservation Groups – Stops Forest Service Logging in Lynx Habitat on Border of Yellowstone National Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council challenged the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plans to log 7,000 acres of lodgepole...
Federal Judge halts Eastern Idaho Logging Project
by Keith Ridler BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has halted a 7,000-acre eastern Idaho logging project in potential lynx habitat near Yellowstone National Park after finding the U.S. Forest Service failed to follow federal laws intended to safeguard the...
Conservation Groups file lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Logging in Flathead National Forest
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Three conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Wild Swan and Native Ecosystems Council...
No ‘Lawless Logging’ in Montana
by Michael Garrity, Opinion Columnists A handful of timber corporations recently took out full-page ads statewide to criticize the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for doing what we do well — working to keep Montana "high, wide and handsome" as Joseph Kinsey Howard...
Conservation Group Files Extensive Comments to Sleeping Giant’s Zip Line Plans
by Martin Kidston, Billings Gazette CODY, Wyo. — A conservation group based in Montana is asking the Shoshone National Forest to consult the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when considering the impacts a zip line at Sleeping Giant Ski Area might have on grizzly bears...
AWR Files to Protect Grizzly Bears
‘Til the Cows Come Home U.S. Judge Halts Aerial Herding of Yellowstone Bison Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Helicopter Use in Bison Hazing Federal Judge Halts Low-Level Helicopter Bison Hazing to Protect Yellowstone Grizzlies Order, May 14, 2012 (doc) Cattle...
‘Til the Cows Come Home
by George Ochenski How much longer will we haze bison with helicopters? It's springtime in the Rockies and that means the brutal practice of hazing bison off federal lands to make room for cattle is once again in full swing, as state and federal agents seek to drive...
Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Helicopter Use in Bison Hazing
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer For at least the next two weeks, Montana Department of Livestock helicopters will cease to hover in the skies around Yellowstone National Park. Monday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell agreed with the arguments...
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