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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.
Group Sues over Kootenai Forest Road-building Effect on Grizzlies
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian Logging plans in the Kootenai National Forest have been challenged by an environmental group that argues new road-building will ruin chances for grizzly bear survival. "The grizzly numbers there continue to decline every year," Alliance...
Grizzly Bear Defenders Fight Logging Projects
by Anne Henderson MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) - Environmentalists say the U.S. Forest Service is paving the way to grizzly bear deaths by opening one of America's five remaining grizzly bear habitats to road construction and logging. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies says...
Conservation Organization Files Lawsuit to Stop Logging in Grizzly Bear Habitat in the Kootenai National Forest
contacts Liz Sedler, AWR, (208) 263-5281 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in Federal District Court in Missoula on Monday challenging the U.S. Forest Service's...
Wolf Season Closes Prior to Quota Being Met
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Montana's inaugural wolf season ended Monday after the state came close to the predetermined 75-wolf quota. As of Monday, hunters had reported shooting 72 wolves, mainly in the western half of the state, in the first-ever...
Protect the Park; Cartwright Pitches Wilderness Designation for Glacier
by George Ochenski One of Montana's greatest assets is Glacier National Park, where the sheer beauty of the majestic landscape overwhelms visitors with stunning vistas of waterfalls, aquamarine lakes, hanging glaciers on towering peaks and abundant wildlife. Most of...
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...
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