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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.
Appeals Court Halts Logging Project in the Yaak Area
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...
Federal Appeals Court Halts Implementation of Logging Project in Grizzly Bear Habitat
contacts Liz Sedler, AWR, (208) 263-5281 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted a temporary injunction today to halt all logging and road-building activities...
Smith Testifies for Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
by Brian Smith, Guest Writer Editor's Note: Over the past two years, I've written extensively about Montana's microbrewing industry. Just in case you've ever wondered how beer and the brewing business fit with the travel and outdoor section of NewWest.Net, well, here...
Lawmakers Bicker Over Wilderness Plan
by Matthew Daly, Associated Press Writer House Republicans blasted a wide-reaching wilderness bill Tuesday and ridiculed its most high-profile supporter, singer Carole King. WASHINGTON - House Republicans blasted a wide-reaching wilderness bill Tuesday and ridiculed...
The Return of Citizen King
by Todd Wilkinson After years of pushing Congress to protect a vast swath of her adopted Northern Rockies, Carole King may finally have a more receptive audience "Hi," she said, extending her hand, almost shyly, "my name is Carole." Sixteen springs ago, I went to...
U.S. House of Representatives Announces Hearing on the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, H.R. 980
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Gary Macfarlane, President,Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (208) 882-9755 Washington, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee announced today that...
The Grassroots of NREPA
Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives 1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 April 16, 2009 Dear Representative Rahall and Representative Grijalva: H.R. 980, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Act (NREPA) was originally...
Interior Secretary Salazar Finalizes Wolf Delisting; Conservation Groups will Challenge the Removal of Essential Federal
contacts Jenny Harbine, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Washington, D.C. - An advance copy of the Federal Register - released today - contains a final version of the federal government's...
Federal Agency won’t Defend Bush’s Bull Trout Cuts
PORTLAND - The Obama administration won't defend the Bush administration's cuts to habitat protections for the threatened bull trout, whose need for cold, clean water can stand in the way of logging and mining on national forests. Conservation groups had sued to...
USFWS to take Another Look at Critical Habitat for Bull Trout in Columbia Basin
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will rework its September 2005 critical habitat designation for threatened Columbia and Klamath river bull trout stocks. A lawsuit challenging the legality of the designation was filed in U.S. District Court in Portland in...
Groups Plan to Sue Interior Over Lynx
by Eve Byron Nine environmental groups notified the Department of the Interior Friday that they plan to file a lawsuit over the most recent designation of critical habitat for Canada lynx. Generally speaking, the groups don't believe that enough land was included in...
Interior Secretary Salazar Announces Wolf Delisting; Conservation Groups Will Challenge The Removal of Essential Federal Protects
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Jenny Harbine, Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699 Suzanne Asha Stone, Defenders of Wildlife, (208) 861-4655 Louisa Willcox, Natural Resources Defense Council, (406) 222-9561 Melanie...
Forest Service Withdraws Timber Sale after Conservation Groups File Lawsuit in Federal District Court
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest withdrew the Barton Springs Timber sale on February 25, 2008 after two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native...
Carole King Joins Rep. Carolyn Maloney in Supporting the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Helen Yost or Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755 Washington, D.C. - Today, pop music legend Carole King joined Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)...
Bill Would Designate 23 Million Acres of Wilderness
by Matthew Daly, Associated Press Writer A New York congresswoman has again introduced a wide-reaching wilderness protection bill that would ban logging, oil exploration and other development on 23 million acres across five Northwestern states. As in previous years,...
Forest Service Withdraws Timber Sale After Environmental Groups File Lawsuit
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 White Sulphur Springs, Montana – Carol Hatfield, The Ranger for the White Sulphur Ranger District in the Lewis and Clark National Forest signed a letter yesterday withdrawing...
Groups Sue to Halt Timber Sale
Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service to halt a logging project along Hebgen Lake south of Ennis, claiming it would harm grizzly bears. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed the lawsuit Friday against the Gallatin...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Logging and Road Building in Grizzly Bear Habitat Near Yellowstone Park
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit Friday afternoon in Federal District Court in Missoula against the U.S....
Justice Department Reconsidering Bull Trout Stance
by The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The U.S. Justice Department may soften its stance in a lawsuit by Montana environmental activists who sought certain habitat protections for bull trout. The threatened species needs clean and cold water, a need that may...
Court: Forest Violated Plan
HELENA - A federal appeals court says the Flathead National Forest failed to follow the grizzly bear standards in its Forest Plan when it approved the Moose Post-Fire Project in 2002. Under the project, about 20 miles north of Columbia Falls, more access was given to...
Court: Forest Service Needs Grizzly Rule
by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian The Forest Service made a wrong decision on protecting grizzly bears in the Flathead National Forest because it didn't have a rule to make the decision with, according to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case grew out of...
Forest Service Settles Timber Suit
by The Associated Press Boise, Idaho - The U.S. Forest Service settled a lawsuit by environmentalists fighting a proposed timber sale near the central Idaho town of Salmon by agreeing to scale back logging that was meant to reduce fuels. In May, the Alliance for the...
FS Settles with Enviro Group in Idaho Timber Suit
by John Miller The U.S. Forest Service settled a lawsuit filed by environmentalists fighting a central Idaho timber sale by agreeing to scale back logging that was meant to reduce fuels near the town of Salmon. In May, the Missoula, Montana-based Alliance for the Wild...
Conservation Group Reaches Settlement with Forest Service in Salmon National Forest Lawsuit
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Salmon, Idaho - The Alliance for the Wild Rockies announced today that they reached a settlement with the U.S. Forest Service in regards to their lawsuit against the Salmon...
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