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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...
Help the Alliance protect Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Montana’s Paradise Valley is aptly named, sitting between two towering mountain ranges, it cradles the mighty Yellowstone River that flows from its headwaters in America’s first national park and provides critical habitat to the native species still present 200 years...
Grant proposal to support hiring of AWR legal staff – Summer 2022
Why we need to fund AWR senior staff attorney/legal director position, and potentially a junior staff attorney position EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation organization based in Montana, is seeking a grant to help fund...
Federal Court Halts Illegal Logging in Endangered Grizzly Habitat in NW Montana
On May 25, a federal district court in Montana halted a large-scale industrial logging project in endangered grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Montana. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies requested the preliminary injunction to protect the small, isolated, and...
National Park Service drains “critical habitat” bull trout river to grow hay for cows
Photo courtesy of Pat Clayton The Clark Fork River is federally-designated as “critical habitat” for bull trout, which have been listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act since 1999. The Upper Clark Fork is also part of the nation’s largest Superfund...
Protect Old Growth and Mature Forests
Protect Old Growth and Mature Forests On Earth Day, President Biden announced a new policy to protect mature and old growth trees which store the most carbon. Unfortunately, the president’s order will not ban logging of mature and old-growth forests or even protect...
Huge Castle Mountains logging, burning and road-building project stopped by AWR
Northern Goshawk - USFWS National Digital Library Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystem Council, a 22,500 acre logging, burning, and road-building project in Montana’s Castle Mountains has been stopped by a federal...
What are the Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s Ethics Worth?
What are the Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s Ethics Worth?Do you ever wonder how much your ethics are worth? Apparently, for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) the price is considerably more than the “30 pieces of silver”Judas got for his sell out, but that was...
Forest Service Withdraws Appeal of Massive Logging and Road-building Project in Grizzly Bear Habitat
Photo: Glenn Phillips It’s hard to imagine the damage an enormous timber sale would have had on 70 square miles of Montana’s Ninemile Valley, located about seven miles northwest of Huson, in the Lolo National Forest. But thanks to our lawsuit and two federal court...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies successfully halts grazing and sagebrush-juniper burning in the Elkhorn Mountains Wildlife Management Area
A federal district court ruled in favor of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council in a lawsuit to force the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct an adequate environmental analysis before grazing and burning in the Iron Mask Acquisition...
Don’t Hack the Yaak
If you haven’t been to the Cabinet-Yaak region in northwest Montana, you ought to go. You will find an incredibly beautiful landscape that alternates from rugged, glaciated peaks, to dense coniferous forests with lush meadows and riparian areas along the meandering...
The Alliance needs your help to fight nuclear reactors in Montana
For the last 44 years, nuclear power in Montana has been banned unless approved by the voters. The ban was passed by Citizen Initiative, but Republican majorities in the 2021 Montana legislature repealed the the ban and Republican Governor Gianforte signed the bill...
Happy 80th Birthday Carole King, the hardest working advocate for our planet, #NREPA, and the Alliance For The Wild Rockies!
Carole, you are the best! Photo credit: Kirsten Shultz
Big Victory for Grizzly Bears and Wild, Free-Roaming Elk in Montana
On December 13, a federal court in Montana handed down a big victory for elk and grizzly bears in Montana. The U.S. Forest Service had approved a commercial logging and road-building project on public lands in Montana’s upper Blackfoot River watershed, an incredibly...
Setting the record straight on Citizens’ Rights
Politicians like Sen. Daines (R-MT) and Gov. Gianforte (R-MT) have erroneously claimed that the Alliance for the Wild Rockies gets rich off the Equal Access to Justice Act for working to keep Montana and the rest of the northern Rockies, “high, wide and handsome.” It...
Infrastructure and Budget Bills Contain Very Bad Logging Provisions that Makes Climate Change Worse
Clearcut, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In so many ways the future hangs in the balance as Congress debates the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill and $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Although encouraging the use of more electric...
Time to Stop Clearcutting Our National Forests
Photo: Vicki Anfinson The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is putting up a billboard in Helena with this picture of a massive Forest Service clearcut along the trail to Blackhall Meadows in the Helena National Forest. The Forest Service claimed this utter destruction...
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