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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.
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 Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act has local Congress-watchers buzzing, but it may be already out of date.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...
Court Halts Proposed Aerial Herbicide Spraying of 35,000 acres of the Kootenai National Forest in Northwest Montana
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Missoula, MT — Ruling on to a lawsuit by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, a federal judge has halted proposed herbicide spraying from low-flying helicopters over 35,000 acres...
Idaho and Montana Wolf Hunts End
contacts Jenny Harbine, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Suzanne Asha Stone, Defenders of Wildlife, (208) 861-4655 Louisa Willcox, Natural Resources Defense Council, (406) 222-9561 Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, (575) 534-0360 States plan to kill even...
Court Blocks Mine in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
MISSOULA, Montana, March 29, 2010 (ENS) - Environmental groups today declared victory for bull trout, grizzly bears and the people of northwest Montana, when a federal judge rejected the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a proposed silver and copper mine on the edge...
Molloy Blocks Mine Beneath Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
by Michael Jamison of the Missoulian TROY - A controversial mine that would tunnel beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness was put on hold Monday when a federal judge rejected Forest Service approval of the proposed copper and silver operation. "From our perspective,...
Pine Beetle Fears Misplaced
by George Wuerthner, Opinion The current pine beetle "outbreak" that has led to tree mortality among Rocky Mountain forests has prompted some people to suggest that beetles are "destroying" our forests and that beetle-killed trees will invariably lead to larger...
Forest Lawsuits High in Region
by Nick Gevock Montana groups top in nation for fighting wildfire reduction projects Only one out of 50 U.S. Forest Service projects to reduce wildfire risk gets challenged in court nationwide, but in the region including Montana environmental groups sue at the...
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Conservation Groups on Forest Service Grazing Allotment Decision in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Seattle - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of three conservation groups yesterday in their lawsuit against the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Antelope...
Guest Opinion: Tester’s Bill Threatens Future of Public Forests
by Steve Kelly What makes Sen. Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (S1470) so contentious? Its stated purpose: "To sustain the economic development and recreational use of National Forest System land and other public land in the state of Montana, to add...
Forest Revamps Anti-fire Project
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff Critics of Ashland-area plan fear it would damage game habitat A fuel reduction project northeast of Ashland that was pulled last year after a threatened lawsuit has been repackaged with another one for public review, but it still...
Former MWA Chiefs Blast Tester Bill
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Sixteen former council members of the Montana Wilderness Association - including four past presidents - publicly denounced Sen. Jon Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act on Wednesday, adding that MWA has compromised its mission by...
Tester’s Bill Causing Major Rift Among Wilderness Advocates
by Bill Schneider UPDATED, 10 am, 2-18-10: After seeing this article, two more former MWA council members, Susan Colvin and Dan Heinz (past vice-president) have joined the list and signed the letter opposing Tester's bill, bringing the total to 18. Anybody who has...
Battle for Bull Trout
by George Ochenski, political analyst for the Independent How environmental advocates beat political perfidy Many years ago, while snorkeling the North Fork of the Flathead River, I slipped into a large eddy behind a fallen tree to rest and watch the incredibly clear...
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