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Forest Service Misleading Public on Elliston Timber Sale
by Michael Garrity, Your Turn editorial The recent smoke filling the Helena Valley due to an out-of-control "controlled burn" by the Forest Service should confirm once and for all that government agencies can and do make mistakes. Sometimes, as with the 1,000 acres...
Plan to Log Gallatin Withdrawn
by Gazette Staff The Gallatin National Forest has withdrawn its East Boulder Fuels Reduction Project to re-examine the project in the wake of the re-listing of gray wolves. "We wanted to do some more analysis because it's an endangered species," said Marna Daley,...
East Boulder River Logging Project Withdrawn after Successful Appeal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for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council are pleased to announce that the Gallatin National Forest has withdrawn the planned East Boulder Fuels Reduction...
Forest Service pulls timber sale near Elliston for the fourth time
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Helena, MT — The Helena National Forest announced on August 20 that they are pulling their decision to log the Elliston Face Fuels Reduction timber sale. The Alliance for the...
Judge puts Wolf Hunts on Hold
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge on Thursday reinstated protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho, saying the government made a political decision in removing the protections from just two of the states where Northern Rocky Mountain wolves...
Wolves Back on Endangered List
by Eve Byron, Reporter A federal court judge in Missoula has put gray wolves back on the list of animals covered under the Endangered Species Act, stopping wolf hunts in Montana and Idaho. In his ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sided with a...
Molloy Rules Lynx Plan Arbitrarily Excluded Possible ‘Critical Habitat’
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian Endangered lynx soon may have more room to roam, thanks to a ruling by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, who concluded that large swaths of Western habitat were wrongly excluded from protection. In particular, the court ruled that...
Judge: FWS Plan Excluded Possible Lynx Habitat
by The Associated Press MISSOULA, Mont. — A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is arbitrarily excluding "critical habitat" that could be occupied by the elusive Canada lynx, which were listed a decade ago as threatened. U.S. District Judge...
Judge Halts Kootenai Logging Projects
by Canda Harbaugh, The Western News Federal District Court Judge Donald Molloy halted three Kootenai National Forest logging projects last week after ruling that the U.S. Forest Service failed to properly evaluate how the work would affect endangered grizzly bears....
Appeals court halts logging in Rat Creek Salvage project
by Matt Volz, Associated Press A federal appeals court has blocked the U.S. Forest Service from logging trees on more than 1,600 acres of burned forest in southwestern Montana, but the agency says most of the timber already has been harvested. The 9th U.S. Circuit...
‘Troubadour Reunion’ Tour Donates $326,000 to Alliance for the Wild Rockies
by John S. Adams, Tribune Capitol Bureau HELENA — A Montana ecosystem protection group received a big financial boost last week, thanks to world-famous recording legends Carole King and James Taylor. On June 20, the duo presented Alliance for the Wild Rockies...
Elliston Timber Sale is really about Corporate Welfare
by Sara Jane Johnson, Director of the Native Ecosystems Council Ellen Simpson, the corporate lobbyist for the Montana Wood Products Association, claimed in a recent Your Turn that it is disingenuous for the Native Ecosystems Council and the Alliance for the Wild...
Forest Service Off-base with Elliston Project
by George Wuerthner The Elliston Face logging sale on the Helena National Forest near the town of Elliston is yet another example of how the Forest Service exploits the public's misconceptions about wildfire and forest ecology to further its logging agenda. Like the...
Court Delays Logging Projects
by Brad Fuqua, The Western News U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last week issued a temporary restraining order on three proposed logging projects in Kootenai National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies petitioned the court for the temporary restraining order...
Judge Molloy puts Temporary Block on Kootenai Projects, Citing Grizzlies
by The Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Forest Service from starting three timber projects in a northwestern Montana forest, saying the work could harm the grizzly bear population there. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy...
Forest bill backers rap panel’s changes
by John S. Adams, Triune Capitol Bureau HELENA — A new Senate committee rewrite of Sen. Jon Tester's forest bill is circulating among members of the group that helped draft the original measure, but some of the original bills supporters say the proposed changes are...
Forest Bill Draft Cuts Logging Mandate, but Tester won’t Support
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian A proposal to drop the logging mandate in Sen. Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act has local Congress-watchers buzzing, but it may be already out of date. A "discussion draft" of Tester's S. 1470 legislation started circulating...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to stop logging of Old Growth Forest in Wildlife Management Area
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT — Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service to stop the Ettien Ridge Fuels Reduction Project 22 miles south of Stanford, MT, in...
Meetings Slated on Grizzly Conflicts
by Eve Byron, Independent Record With grizzly bears being found farther out from the Rocky Mountain Front than in past years, officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks are holding community meetings — including one in Wolf Creek next month — to discuss better...
Elliston Timber Sale about more than Elk
by Michael Garrity, Opinion Thanks to the IR for Eve Byron's excellent article on the proposed Elliston Face timber sale (5-6-10), but there are a couple more important points for readers to consider that didn't make it into the story. This is the fourth time the...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to stop Logging in Elk Winter Range
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT - Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish...
Environmental Groups Block Benchmark Burn
by Karl Puckett, Tribune staff writer Two environmental groups successfully appealed a plan by the Lewis and Clark National Forest to burn and log 763 acres of forest in the Benchmark Road corridor west of Augusta. The Benchmark Fuels Reduction Project was to use...
Judge Molloy: Weed-spraying Plan could Harm Grizzly Bears in Kootenai
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA - A U.S. Forest Service plan to spray herbicide from helicopters over the Kootenai National Forest does not adequately protect dozens of grizzly bears and could drive them from their habitat, a federal judge has ruled. U.S....
NPS to Share Research Profits Under New Park Policy
by Noelle Straub of Greenwire The National Park Service has finalized a policy that will allow parks to negotiate payments from researchers who use the results of their studies for commercial products or services. Parks will negotiate on a case-by-case basis for...
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