The Alliance Blog
Learn about our ongoing work and success in holding our government agencies accountable to the laws that protect our ecosystems and species from habitat destruction caused by extractive industries.
Massive “Pintler Face” logging and burning project on Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest challenged in federal court
Photo:Lisa Hupp/USFWS Click here to read the complaint filed in Federal Court. It’s absolutely one of the worst places in the state for clearcuts. For the Forest Service to propose a project like this in essential habitat for lynx, grizzly bear, and wolverine -- which...
Taking on the Forest Service in Federal Court
Bull trout. Image: US Fish and Wildlife Service Forest Service plan to log old growth and bulldoze logging roads in bull trout critical habitat challenged in federal court There’s so much wrong with this project, so many illegalities, omissions, and disregard for the...
Top Ten Victories by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in 2023
Photo: Glen Phillips Thank you all for helping us make a difference this year. Here's to more in 2024! 1) Wolverines listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act after 20-year conservation effort. 2) Federal Court - Feds Must Proceed with Grizzly Bear Recovery...
Great News! The Feds Must Proceed with Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Bitterroot Mountains Wilderness
Photo: Steve Hillebrand/USFWS Recovery of endangered grizzly bears in the lower 48 states hinges on critical genetic connectivity between the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental grizzlies provided by the Bitterroot Mountains. Located on the border of central...
For Bioregional Cooperation: an Interview With Mike Garrity of Alliance for the Wild Rockies
Pilot Peak, Beartooth Range, Greater Yellowstone. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. BY MICHELLE RENEE MATISONS If ever there is a time for cooperative ecological action it is now, and there are plenty of opportunities for engagement in the West. The Rocky Mountain system/...
U.S. Forest Service logging makes a mockery of Biden’s climate pledge
Once again, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Center on Biological Diversity and Council on Wildlife and Fish are challenging the Biden administration’s Forest Service on yet another massive clearcutting. This time it’s the South Plateau Project, right on the border...
Alliance for Wild Rockies halts degradation of Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
Photo: George Jordan, USFWS In what was undoubtedly one of the most bizarre attempts to “save” a handful of lake grayling, Biden’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and Montana Trout Unlimited tried to throw the...
Alliance Stops Massive Logging Project in Lynx and Grizzly Habitat
It’s absolutely one of the worst places in the country for clearcuts. So we’re thrilled that the Court agreed with us and halted the logging project. But going even further, the Court’s Order vacated the Forest Service’s approval of this logging and road-building...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies stops Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear habitat destruction
Without question, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears are the most isolated and threatened population in Montana. The bad news is that this already small population is going downhill so fast it’s threatened with irreversible inbreeding. The good news is the Alliance for...
Alliance wins court challenge against widespread illegal motorized use on National Forests
Photo: Park Service For decades the Forest Service has gotten away with calling hundreds, if not thousands, of roads on national forests “closed” when they’re not. As is well known and documented, illegal use of the roads continues when people drive around the fences,...
Federal Court Halts Pipeline Construction in Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
Photo: George Jordan, USFWS The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is thrilled to announce the U.S. District Court granted our request for a Preliminary Injunction to immediately stop the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s construction of a permanent water pipeline in the...
Federal Court Halts Illegal Logging to Save Endangered Grizzly Bears in NW Montana
Photo: Glen Phillips Thanks to a successful court challenge by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, over 10,000 acres of grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Montana will not be decimated by commercial logging. In late June, our lawsuit in a federal district court in...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies challenges massive clearcut and burning project near Lake Pend Oreille in northern Idaho
Remember when the Forest Service bluffed the public and naive environmental groups saying the agency never approved clearcuts larger than 20 acres? No longer! The latest Buckskin-Saddle project in northern Idaho includes 30 square miles of logging with more than half...
AWR and Allies Win Lawsuit Over Grazing Project That Would Kill 72 Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Yellowstone grizzly. Photo: National Park Service. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Western Watershed Project and Yellowstone to Uintas Coalition on May 25th on our lawsuit over livestock grazing on 267 square...
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act: Last Best Chance for the Last Best Place
Photo: Glenn Phillips Montana and the Northern Rockies are facing an unprecedented wave of development that is fracturing wildlife habitat, threatening water quality, and seeing vastly increased logging of our national forests under the guise of “restoration” and...
Older forests on the Kootenai National Forest are nature’s best climate solution
Old multistory forest slated for phased clearcut. Logging unit 72, Kootenai National Forest. Photo credit: Yaak Valley Forest Council By Dominick A. DellaSala, Ph. D, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage For four decades, I have been crisscrossing the globe inventorying...
AWR lawsuit halts clearcutting project in critical Cabinet-Yaak grizzly habitat
Photo credit: Glen Phillips One would have to be mighty gullible to believe the Forest Service’s claim that the Knotty Pine Project would benefit the declining population of Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears because the 5,000 acres of logging with massive new clearcuts would...
President Biden and Interior Secretary Haaland must stop Yellowstone buffalo slaughter
The images are sickening. More than a thousand huge gut piles litter the landscape just outside the borders of Yellowstone National Park from wild buffalo that were shot with high-powered rifles. Their only sin? They wandered over Yellowstone’s border into Montana...
Update: Holland Lake Lodge Syndrome is worse than we thought
Photograph Source: Forest Service Northern Region – Public Domain Holland Lake in the pristine Seeley-Swan Valley in western Montana provides critical habitat for threatened bull trout and surrounding areas are home to lynx, grizzly bears, elk, and wolverines. Due to...
Over a quarter of the last wild buffalo GONE
Over 1,600 Yellowstone bison have been killed or removed from the population. GARDINER, MT: Yellowstone National Park released the latest report of bison management operations on the Interagency Bison Management Plan website (IBMP.info) on Friday, March 3rd. The...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Habitat Destruction
Photo: Glen Phillips There’s no other way to put it, the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population is going downhill fast – which is the opposite of the agency’s legal mandate to recover, not extinguish, endangered species. In 2018 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service counted...
AWR stops huge clearcutting and road bulldozing project in Boise’s most popular recreation area
Bull trout photo (Associated Press) Thanks to our lawsuit, the Forest Service was forced to withdraw a huge logging and road bulldozing project in Boise’s most popular recreation area a few days ago. The groups contended the agency did not comply with the Endangered...
BLM no better under Stone-Manning than under Trump
It’s incredibly disappointing, but the Bureau of Land Management is no better under Tracy Stone-Manning’s leadership than under Trump. While the examples pile up nationally, here in Stone-Manning’s home state the agency is attempting to dodge required public review...
Tell U.S. Forest Service to DENY Holland Lake Lodge-POWDR Master Development Plan
Sign this Petition to Protect Montana from Industrial Tourism and Commercial Recreation on Our Public Land Tell U.S. Forest Service to DENY Holland Lake Lodge/POWDR Master Development Plan The United States Forest Service must deny the Holland Lake Lodge/POWDR...
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