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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...
Tidwell Takes Helm at Forest Service
from Wire and Staff Reports Regional supervisor noted for accessibility Tom Tidwell, supervisor of the U.S. Forest Service region that encompasses North Idaho, is the new head of the national agency. Tidwell is a 32-year Forest Service employee and supervised national...
Montana Logging Project Challenged Over Habitat
HELENA, Mont. - Groups that sued the Forest Service to halt a logging project in the Gallatin National Forest in southern Montana have sued again, reasserting the project jeopardizes habitat for elk and sensitive species such as Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The...
Environmental Groups Again Try to Stop Smith Creek Logging
by Brett French of The Gazette Staff, French@billingsgazette.com or (406) 657-1387 Two environmental groups have sued for a second time to halt a timber sale and prescribed burn on the northwest side of the Crazy Mountains, despite changes made to the original plan to...
Gray Wolf Lawsuits Filed in Montana, Wyoming
by Eve Byron, - Independent Record, (406) 447-4076, eve.byron@helenair.com As promised, a coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit in federal court in Missoula Tuesday to try to halt the removal of gray wolves from the list of animals covered by the Endangered...
Advocates Say FWS Must Expand Lynx Habitat
by Rob Chaney of the Misoulian Warmer weather will leave the endangered lynx isolated on islands of high-altitude habitat unless the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works to expand its critical territory, a group of wildlife advocates argues in court. The Montana-based...
Global Warming Concerns Lead to Challenge of Critical Habitat Designation
contacts Kristina Johnson, (415) 977-5619, Kristina.Johnson@sierraclub.org Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936, garritymichael@yahoo.com Megan Corrigan, (303) 546-0214, megan@nativeecosystems.org Endangered lynx will need more room to roam as climate changes, groups...
Climate Concerns Prompt Lawsuit Over Lynx Habitat
by Patrick Reis, Greenwire The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is being sued by a coalition of environmental groups that says recent expansions to the Canada lynx's protected habitat are still insufficient to protect the endangered cat from climate change. The suit is...
Conservation Groups Oppose Logging Plan
by Gazette News Services A logging project planned on more than 1,700 acres on the Custer National Forest's Ashland District is under fire from two conservation groups. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit Thursday afternoon...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Clearcutting in Custer National Forest
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Ashland - Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon in Federal District Court in Missoula...
Appeals Court Grants Injunction in Yaak Forest Lawsuit
by The Associated Press HELENA - A federal appeals court panel Monday granted a temporary injunction to halt logging and road-building on the Northeast Yaak Project in the Kootenai National Forest. The project authorized logging of approximately 16.7 million board...
Appeals Court Halts Logging Project Yaak Area
HELENA - A federal appeals court panel Monday granted a temporary injunction to halt logging and road-building on the Northeast Yaak Project in the Kootenai National Forest. The Project authorized logging of approximately 16.7 million board feet of timber from 1,777...
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