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Tester’s Bill is Welfare for a Few Private Mills
by Paul Edwards, Guest Columnist Well, finally - Sen. Jon Tester and a few strange bedfellows have floated a logging bill that everyone who works, has worked or hopes to work for one of four struggling lumber mills or one bankrupt cardboard box-maker can...
Forest Service Pulls Timber Sale in an Inventoried Roadless area in Prime Grizzly Bear habitat near Yellowstone Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The U.S. Forest Service pulled a timber sale yesterday after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in Federal...
Poaching throws Wrinkles in Montana’s First Wolf-hunting Season
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian KALISPELL - When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area's wolf-hunting quota would be adjusted accordingly. They were wrong. "Looking at Idaho...
Grizzlies Home on Range — Again
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer When members of the Ayers family snapped photographs of a grizzly bear spotted on their ranch north of Fort Benton in the early summer, they were documenting the return of the species to its former home on the range. "I don't...
Grizzly Bears Fared Poorly this October in Montana
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian October is always a lousy month to be a grizzly bear, and this October was worse than usual. Eight of the threatened bears were killed in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem last month, compared to the 10-year October average of...
Montana Wolf Hunt is Stalked by Controversy
by Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times Reporting from Gardiner, Mont. - Wolf 527 was a survivor. She lived through a rival pack's crippling 12-day siege of her den. When another pair of wolves laid down stakes in her territory, she killed the mother and picked off the...
Who will Foot Bill for Wolves?
by Eve Byron, Independent Record With an estimated 1,645 gray wolves now on the landscape in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, their recovery is heralded by many government officials as an amazing success story. Yet it hasn't come cheap. Americans have spent more than $35...
Glacier’s Super wants Park’s Backcountry to be Wilderness
by Jennifer McKee, IR State Bureau The backcountry of Glacier National Park should be protected as formal wilderness area, the park's superintendent told a business group here Wednesday. "This would not change how we manage the park," Glacier Superintendent Chas...
Forest Service Pulls Fuels Reduction Project near Ashland
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Under threat of a lawsuit, the Custer National Forest has pulled a 10,000-acre fuels reduction project northeast of Ashland. Acting Ashland District Ranger Doug Epperly announced the decision in a letter dated Sept. 14. "We still...
Forest Service Withdraws Massive Road-building and Clear-cutting Project in the Custer National Forest in Response to Lawsuit
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Last week the Forest Service withdrew its decision to go forward with the Whitetail Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project on the Custer National Forest in Montana. Two local...
Summary of the Press Release or Newspaper Feature
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Wolf advocates have opted not to appeal a federal court decision that let wolf hunting seasons go forward in Montana and Idaho. "We're anxious to get to the merits of our case," said EarthJustice lead attorney Doug Honnold on Monday....
Live and Let Live
Editorial The gray wolf is a top predator, an essential part of the ecosystem, a symbol of the West. And it's a symbol best displayed, not as pelts on a wall, but by packs in the wild. Exterminated like vermin, a bounty on their heads, the gray wolf was hunted to...
Judge: Delisting of Northern Rockies Wolves Likely Illegal
MISSOULA, Montana, September 9, 2009 (ENS) - Late last night, a federal judge found that the federal government likely violated the law when it removed Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. In the same ruling, Chief Judge Donald...
Environmental Groups Go to Bat for Montana Grizzly Bears
by Sonya Angelica Diehn (CN) - A U.S. Forest Service logging plan will harm threatened grizzly bears in Montana's Flathead National Forest, three environmental groups say. The logging plan reopens portions of a closed road and keeps intact 10 culverts that were...
Governor to Judge Molloy: Don’t Stop Montana’s Wolf Hunting Season
by Jennifer McKee of the Missoulian State Bureau HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Tuesday he'll be disappointed if a federal judge stops Montana's first-ever wolf hunting season - and hinted the state may sue to keep the hunt on. "If some old judge says we can't...
Wilderness Back in the Spotlight
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian For more than three decades, millions of Montana federal acres have been de facto wilderness. Over the past few weeks, those slumbering lands have been shoved back into the spotlight. And last Wednesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Collateral damage: Experts wonder what Tester’s bill may kill
by Jesse Froehling The Northern Goshawk, a bird the size of a crow, with salt and pepper plumage and a distinct light eyebrow, calls the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest home. For years, the U.S. Forest Service has used the goshawk as an "indicator species" to...
Judge Halts Biathlon Course
by Eve Byron - Independent Record A federal court judge put a halt Wednesday to construction of a biathlon course near MacDonald Pass west of Helena. In issuing his summary judgment ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy said that an investigation of the...
Tester’s Forest Bill: Does Nature Win?
by Daniel Person, Chronicle Staff Writer In Madison County, there's a place called Cowboy's Heaven. Wolverines live there, as do moose, black bears and mountain lions. No roads cut across its open grasslands or through its forests, and it's sandwiched between two...
Tester’s Logging Bill Turns Management of Our National Forests Over to the Timber Industry
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Michael Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies blasted Senator Tester's logging bill as turning over management of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National...
A Natural Environmentalist
by David Mark Carole King's songs are tightly woven into the tapestry of American music. Flip on the radio and, before long, at least one of the singer-songwriter's familiar tunes is likely to ring out. Starting with The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" in...
Wilderness Bill: Tester Criticized for Being Secretive
by Matt Gouras, Associated Press HELENA - A group of environmentalists and former supporters of Sen. Jon Tester are criticizing his office's decision to keep quiet about legislative plans for a new Montana wilderness bill. Critics speaking out about the plan include...
Feds Agree to New Bull Trout Protections
by Jeff Barnard, AP Environmental Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to take a new look at how much habitat needs to be protected for the bull trout - in the latest Obama administration rollback of Bush administration reductions in the Endangered...
Judge Orders Another Look at Bull Trout Critical Habitat
contacts Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The District Court in Portland, Oregon ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to re-analyze the critical...
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