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Environmental Group will Appeal Recent Wolf Decision
by Marnee Banks According to the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, hunters will be able to kill wolves this fall, but the group is hoping to change that for next hunting season. The Alliance is appealing Wednesday's court ruling which keeps wolves off the endangered...
U.S. Judge Refuses to Restore Wolf Protections
by Laura Zuckerman, Reuters SALMON, Idaho, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A federal judge refused on Wednesday to overturn an unprecedented act of Congress that removed some 1,500 wolves in Montana and Idaho from the U.S. endangered species list. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy...
U.S. Judge Refuses to Restore Wolf Protections
by Laura Zuckerman, Reuters SALMON, Idaho, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A federal judge refused on Wednesday to overturn an unprecedented act of Congress that removed some 1,500 wolves in Montana and Idaho from the U.S. endangered species list. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy...
Three Groups Appeal Air Quality Permit for UM Biomass Boiler
by Chelsi Moy of the Missoulian Three groups will present their arguments against an air quality permit issued by the Missoula City-County Health Department for the University of Montana's proposed biomass boiler during a public meeting on Wednesday. But not all of...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Seeks to Halt Rogue Logging Project in Eastern Montana
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 in federal court to halt a massive logging and burning project planned for Beaver Creek in the...
Guest Column: The Future is Worth the Fight
by Michael Garrity, guest columnist, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle The Bozeman Chronicle recently editorialized against the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for filing a lawsuit to stop helicopter hazing of Yellowstone grizzly bears. While the Chronicle certainly has the...
Bison Haze begins Today, Environmental Group Pushes to Block use of Helicopters
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle About 500 bison remain west of Yellowstone National Park, but Wednesday their time there will come to an end. Low-flying helicopters and horseback riders will begin hazing the animals back into the...
Lawsuit: Hazing Bison with Helicopters Harmful to Grizzly Bears
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has filed a lawsuit trying to stop state and federal officials from using helicopters to haze bison into Yellowstone National Park, arguing the tactic also harasses grizzly bears. "We have video footage...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies files Lawsuit to Halt Harassment of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
contact Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a Helena, Montana, based non-profit conservation group, has filed a lawsuit to halt repeated low-altitude helicopter flights over occupied grizzly...
Environmentalists Sue to Block 7,000-acre Logging Project
by Todd Dvorak, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — A pair of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the merits of a proposed 7,000-acre logging project in federal forest on the western border of Yellowstone National Park. Attorneys for the...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies files “Notice of Intent to Sue” to Halt Harassment of Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a Helena, Montana, based non-profit conservation group, filed an official 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue under the Endangered Species Act...
Judge Blocks Deal on Protections for Wolves
by The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a proposal to lift the endangered species protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho that had been hammered out by U.S. wildlife officials and conservation groups. The plan could have led to...
Groups Appeal to Stop Logging in Bozeman’s Watershed
by Gazette Staff Three conservation groups are appealing a timber project south of Bozeman, saying the Gallatin National Forest is violating its own standards as well as building roads in critical lynx habitat. The Bozeman Municipal Watershed project has been promoted...
Conservation Groups File Administrative Appeal to Stop Logging in Bozeman’s Watershed
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Kelly, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 586-4421 Bozeman, MT — Three conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Montana Ecosystem Defense Council and Native...
Groups appeal logging project
by Eve Byron, Independent Record It's back to the drawing board for a portion of the Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project along the Rocky Mountain Front near Augusta. For the second time, a hearings officer has sided with two environmental groups — the Alliance for the...
Forest Service Reverses Decision on Benchmark Logging, Prescribed Burn
by Richard Ecke, Tribune Staff Writer Some 763 acres of forests in the Benchmark area west of Augusta would not be logged or burned under the reversal of an earlier U.S. Forest Service decision. "We're pleased to announce that the Forest Service has reversed its...
Environmental Groups no Strangers to Courthouse
by Daniel Person and Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writers At her home outside Three Forks last week, Sara Johnson was printing out plans for a federal logging project in South Dakota's Black Hills. If things go the way they often do, Johnson will submit comments on...
The Donor Dance: How Green Groups Stay Funded
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer In the realm of green groups, there are no widgets for sale. Donors receive no bells or whistles to take home and show for their money. There are only ideas, projects, promises of action, a hope and a cause. Still, that's...
Settlement Reached for Wolf Delisting, Awaits Court’s OK
by Carly Flandro, Chronicle Staff Writer After years of legal gridlock, conservation groups and the U.S. Department of Interior Friday reached an agreement on gray wolf management that, if approved, would remove federal protection for the animals in Montana and Idaho....
Alliance for the Wild Rockies take Litigious Approach to Environmental Protection
by Daniel Person, Chronicle Staff Writer Not mincing words, Steve Kelly described the Alliance for the Wild Rockies approach to environmentalism in terms of war. "It's been a battle for policy," said Kelly, of Bozeman, one of the group's founders. "What's the policy...
Forest Service drops Appeal of Decision Halting Road-building and Logging in NW Montana Endangered Grizzly Bear Habitat
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Kootenai National Forest has dropped an appeal of a federal court ruling that halted three planned road-building and logging projects on public land in occupied habitat for...
Rider on National Funding Bill Delists Wolves by Congressional Fiat: Tester’s Wolf Rider Sets a Bad Policy, mtstandard.com, March 9, 2011
by Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 During his 2006 campaign against then-Sen. Conrad Burns, candidate Jon Tester made many promises. Among them, Tester promised he wouldn't use "riders," which are amendments tacked on...
Benchmark Logging Plan won’t Protect Homes, Violates Law
by Michael Garrity, Opinion A Feb. 11 opinion column in the Tribune alleged that an appeal of the Benchmark logging proposal was somehow "irresponsible." Nothing could be further from the truth. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council appealed...
Gov Calls for Wolves to be Killed
by Eve Byron, The Independent Record In a bold move against federal authority of gray wolves in Montana, Gov. Brian Schweitzer has called for entire packs to be killed in the Bitterroot Valley to protect the dwindling elk population there, and has directed Montana...
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