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Appeals Court Upholds Simpson’s Rider that Delisted Idaho Wolves
by Rocky Barker The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's decision that Congress did not violate the Constitution when it delisted wolves in the Rocky Mountains. Idaho Republican Rep. Mike Simpson authored the rider to the 2012...
Appeals Court Upholds Wolf De-listing
by Dennis Bragg (KPAX/KAJ Media Center) SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says Congress was within its power when it ordered wolves in the Northern Rockies taken off the Endangered Species List last year. The ruling came Wednesday morning in the...
OK to Remove Gray Wolf from Endangered List
by Tim Hull (CN) — The government can remove the Northern Rocky Mountain Gray Wolf from the Endangered Species List, the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday, paving the way for continued hunting of the predators in several western states. The federal appeals court in Pasadena...
Fleecer Timber Cut Illegal, Says Group
by Mike Garrity, guest opinion One of the many reasons that Butte is a great place to live is the tremendous wild country surrounding the area. Within minutes of Butte there is world-class fishing on the Big Hole and Jefferson Rivers and some of the best elk hunting...
USFS Proposed Fleecer Timber Sale
Proposed Fleecer Timer Sale Area Fleecer Timber Cut Illegal, Says Group Environmentalists Sue Over Fleecer Logging Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Stop Logging and Road Building in Lynx, Grizzly and Elk Habitat Complaint, Feb 21, 2012 (PDF)
Wide Range of Groups Against Seeley Lake Logging Lawsuit
by Eve Byron, Independent Record A proposed project that includes logging, roadwork and weed spraying on national forest land north of Seeley Lake is pitting a wide-ranging array of organizations against four environmental groups that filed a lawsuit opposing the...
Lolo National Forest Colt Timber Project Habitat Threat
Locator Map (link) Wide Range of Groups Against Seeley Lake Logging Lawsuit Conservationists Unlikely Opponent to Logging Suit
Conservationists Unlikely Opponent to Logging Suit
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (WTW) — Conservation groups suing to block a logging project in a western Montana have found an unlikely opponent: other conservation groups. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and three other conservation groups filed a...
Environmentalists Sue Over Fleecer Logging
by Nick Gevock of The Montana Standard Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over a logging and habitat improvement project proposed on 3,000 acres of Mount Fleecer. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed suit in...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Stop Logging and Road Building in Lynx, Grizzly and Elk Habitat
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Butte, MT — Calling it "one of the most corrupt logging projects ever proposed in Montana," Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, announced...
UM Scraps Biomass Heating Plant, Apologizes for ‘Eco-terrorism’ Remark
by Chelsi Moy of the Missoulian The University of Montana announced Friday that it will suspend indefinitely plans to build a woody biomass heating plant on campus and publicly apologized for a top university administrator's derogatory comment about critics of the...
No Biomass Plant, COT will be Built on UM Golf Course
by Hannah Ryan In a last minute press conference called at noon today, University of Montana President Royce Engstrom announced an indefinite halt to the proposed wood-burning biomass boiler plant to heat campus. Halting the biomass plant He cited the price of natural...
UM Halts Plans for Woody Biomass Heating Plant
by Chelsi Moy of the Missoulian The University of Montana announced Friday that it will suspend indefinitely plans to build a woody biomass heating plant on campus and publicly apologized for a top university administrator's derogatory comment about critics of the...
Bison Management Plan To Be Discussed At Chico
by Katherine Mozzone BOZEMAN, Mont. — Wednesday begins a two part meeting where plan partners will discuss how to further progress in reaching their goal of conserving a wild, free-range bison population while controlling the spread of Brucellosis. The Citizens...
Forest Service Sinks Utah’s Plan to Poison fish
by Brandon Loomis, The Salt Lake Tribune The U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn its permission for Utah to poison a Boulder Mountain stream to cleanse it of non-native fish before restoring native cutthroat trout. Dixie National Forest Supervisor Rob Macwhorter had...
Forest Service Fish Poisoning Project, Boulder, Utah
Forest Service Sinks Utah’s Plan to Poison Fish Forest Service backs off Boulder Creek Poisoning Plan Forest Service Withdrawl Notice, Nov 22, 2011 (PDF) Boulder Town Council Appeal, Oct 7, 2011 (doc) AWR Appeal, Oct 7, 2011 (doc)
Concerns about Biomass Burner Far from ‘Eco-terrorism’
by Michael Garrity, Guest column, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies Bob Duringer, the University of Montana's vice president of Administration and Finance, was quoted in a Nov. 17 Missoulian article accusing those who question UM's plan to build...
Forest Service Withdraws Fish Poisoning Decision after Conservation Groups and the town of Boulder, UT appeal
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Boulder, UT — "We're pleased to announce that the Forest Service has reversed its decision to proceed with its plan to dump rotenone, a fish-killing poison, into East Boulder...
Forest Service backs off Boulder Creek Poisoning Plan
by Amy Joi O'Donoghue BOULDER, Garfield County — Forest Service officials have indefinitely called off a plan to poison an 8-mile stretch of Boulder Creek to kill non-native trout and replace them with Colorado cutthroat trout. Resident opposition to the plan was...
Little Belt Timber Sale withdrawn after Successful Appeal
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council are pleased to announce that the Lewis and Clark National Forest has withdrawn the planned Blakenship Vegetation...
Biomass Boiler: UM Offers to Pay for more Pollution Testing; Vote Delayed
by Chelsi Moy of the Missoulian The University of Montana volunteered Thursday to pay for additional pollution-control testing to ensure emissions from its proposed biomass boiler meet air quality standards. The move came as the Missoula City-County Air Pollution...
Kootenai Forest asks Judge to Lift Block on Timber Sale near Grizzly Habitat
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Forest Service has asked a judge to lift his block of a logging project near an endangered grizzly population in northwestern Montana, saying a new analysis shows bears don't frequent that area of the Kootenai National...
Advocates Seek Stop to Idaho, Montana Wolf Hunts
by Matthew Brown, Associated Press, from Billings, Montana (AP) PASADENA, Calif. — Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its...
‘Collaborative’ Logging Plan still Controversial
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, IR Your Turn A Nov. 1 article in the Independent Record reported that a "collaborative" group developed and submitted to the Forest Service a proposal to log thousands of acres in and around an inventoried roadless area southwest of...
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