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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by Brandon Loomis, The Salt Lake Tribune The U.S. Forest Service has withdrawn its permission for Utah to poison a Boulder Mountain stream to cleanse it of non-native fish before restoring native cutthroat trout.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...
Idaho and Montana Wolf Hunts Head to Court
by Matthew Brown, Associated Press UPDATE: With more than 150 wolves shot in the Northern Rockies so far this fall, a panel of federal judges on Tuesday is scheduled to consider an emergency halt to public hunts for the animals. Congress cleared the way for the hunts...
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Introduced
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Measure would preserve 23 million roadless acres as wilderness "While most of Congress works hard on giving away national resources to the powerful lobbies for select commercial...
Bill to Convert Roadless Public Lands to Wilderness Reintroduced
by John S. Adams, Great Falls Tribune Capital Bureau Chief HELENA — A sweeping bill that would designate 23 million acres of roadless public lands in five Northern Rockies states as wilderness was reintroduced in Congress this week. The acreage falls in Montana,...
Reps. Maloney, Grijalva, Markey Introduce Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
contacts Jon Houston, Maloney, (202) 225-7944 Eben Burnham-Snyder, Markey, (202) 225-2836 Adam Sarvana, Grijalva, (202) 225-2435 Mike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 --HR 3334 would preserve 23 million acres in Northern Rockies-- WASHINGTON, DC...
Board Postpones Vote on Air Quality Permit for UM Biomass Boiler
by Chelsi Moy of the Missoulian After a lively conversation before a crowded room, members of the Missoula Air Pollution Control Board decided holding a Wednesday night vote on the University of Montana's controversial air quality permit would be a bit hasty. The...
Emergency Injunction Sought to Stop Montana-Idaho Wolf Hunts
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 "Seventeen wolves have already been killed during Montana's early archery wolf-hunting season and sixty wolves in Idaho's wolf hunting season," said Mike Garrity, Executive...
Wolf Hunt: Eleven Wolves Killed in Montana so far, Environmental Groups File Injunction to Block Hunts from Continuing
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer Four wolves were killed during Montana's archery season, which closed Sunday. That concluded the state's first official archery season for wolves, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. The wolves that were taken...
Court Rejects Stay on Wolf Hunts in Idaho, Montana
by Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) - A federal court rejected a bid by conservationists for an immediate halt to wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana on Tuesday, but the judges said they would reconsider the request next month. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and others had...
Bid to Stop Rockies Wolf Hunt Denied – For Now
by The Associated Press BILLINGS — A federal appeals court on Tuesday turned down an emergency request by wildlife advocates seeking to stop gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies. But the court said judges will reconsider the issue in November. The ruling by the 9th...
Environmental Groups Seek Injunction to Stop Montana Wolf Hunt
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian A group of wolf advocates has requested an emergency halt to wolf hunting in the Rocky Mountains, less than a week before the general rifle season begins in Montana. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater and...
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