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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 Withdraws Plans to Clearcut Near Butte After Conservation Groups file lawsuit in Federal District Court
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 On July 7, 2008, Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Supervisor withdraw his August 29, 2007 Decision Memo on the Price-Powder Salvage project after the Alliance for the Wild...
Federal Judge Rules in Conservation Groups Favor on Issue of Helicopter Logging in Grizzly Bear Habitat
contacts Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Liz Sedler, Alliance for the Wild Rockies (208) 263-5281 Missoula - Federal District Court Judge Molloy ruled on July 30, 2008 in a challenge by the Alliance for the Wild...
Plum Creek’s Top Officials Detail Intentions in State
by John Cramer Plum Creek Timber Co. has gotten both a black eye and a pat on the back in recent weeks, both having to do with the specter of big chunks of its forestland being chopped up for subdivisions and trophy homes in western Montana. Now, the logging and real...
Judge Restores Wolf Protections
by Eve Byron Gray wolves once again are under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, after federal court Judge Donald Molloy ruled late Friday that state management plans in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming will irreparably harm the species' reintroduction. In...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Logging of Old Growth Forest in the Crazy Mountains
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 and a local resident, Sharon Hapner, filed a lawsuit yesterday afternoon in Federal...
Montana Standard
by The Standard News Service Helena - A federal timber sale in the Mount Fleecer area southwest of Butte should be stopped because it would violate a Forest Service plan for wildlife and trees, environmental groups say in a lawsuit against the agency and its regional...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Clearcutting in the Fleecer Mountains
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 yesterday afternoon in Federal District Court in Missoula against the...
Groups Challenging Montana Timber Sale File Suit
by The Associated Press Helena - A federal timber sale in southwestern Montana should be stopped because it would violate a Forest Service plan for wildlife and trees, environmental groups say in a lawsuit against the agency and its regional forester, Tom Tidwell. The...
Conservation Groups File Lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Illegal Logging in the Crazy Mountains
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 and a local resident, Sharon Hapner, filed a lawsuit Friday afternoon in Federal...
Eleven Conservation Groups Challenge Federal Wolf Delisting
Earthjustice notifies the US Fish and Wildlife Service that it violated the ESA WASHINGTON, DC - February 27 - Eleven conservation groups are fighting to protect wolves in the northern Rockies. The groups notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today that it...
Conservation Groups file Lawsuit in Federal District Court to Stop Logging of Elk Security Cover and Old Growth Forest in the Gravely Mountains
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 yesterday afternoon in Federal District Court in Helena against the U.S....
Wilderness Bill Debate Boils Down to East Versus West
By Noelle Straub, Missoulian D.C. Bureau WASHINGTON - A longstanding rift between East Coast and Western lawmakers erupted again Thursday as a congressional subcommittee heard testimony on a sweeping bill that would designate as wilderness 23 million acres in five...
Congressional Panel Debates Controversial Wilderness Legislation
by Scott McMillion, Chronicle Staff Writer A congressional subcommittee spent three hours Thursday debating a controversial bill that would grant wilderness status to 23 million acres of land in Montana and four other Northern Rockies states. The House National Parks,...
Act Now to Support the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Recovery Act (NREPA) – HR-1975
URGENT: Please act now to show support for the ONLY Wilderness Bill that would provide adequate protection for all the remaining intact wildlife and fish habitat (Roadless Lands) in the Northern Rockies The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Recovery Act - HR-1975 A hearing...
Articles on October 18, 2007 NREPA Hearings
Lee Newspapers/Missoulian Bozeman Chronicle E&E Daily Associated Press Easterners, Westerners argue over wilderness bill by Mary Clare Jalonick WASHINGTON - Eastern and Western members of the U.S. House clashed sharply Thursday over legislation that would designate...
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) the Product of Local People, Not Elected Officials
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5946 Michael Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies said, "I think it's important to point out that the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act or NREPA...
Critics say Feds Ignored Sound Science
by Noelle Straub, Gazette Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Top Interior Department officials manipulated or ignored science when planning for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act, harming species and the program's integrity in favor of industry, former officials...
Democrats assail Bush Administration over science Meddling
by Matthew Daly, Associate Press Writer WASHINGTON--Democrats lambasted the Bush administration Wednesday for what they called its repeated misuse of science for partisan purposes. They said a former Interior Department official who openly pressured government...
Lawmakers Propose Sweeping Western Wilderness Area
by Noelle Straub, Gazette Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Two East Coast lawmakers introduced a bill Friday with 73 co-sponsors that would designate as wilderness 23 million public acres in five Northern Rocky Mountain states, including Montana and Wyoming. Reps....
Logging attempts to Reduce Fire Danger of Homes, Campsites
By Brett French Of The Billings Gazette Staff Logging began last week on national forest lands along the main Boulder River in an attempt to lessen the area's wildfire threat to recreational homes and campgrounds, despite the fact that the Forest Service's overall...
The Withering of the American Environmental Movement the Thrill is Gone
by Jeffrey St. Clair "The Dark Ages. They haven't ended yet." —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. A kind of political narcolepsy has settled over the American environmental movement. Call it eco-ennui. You may know the feeling: restlessness, lack of direction, evaporating budgets,...
A very desirable res: for $155m, world’s most expensive house is yours
by Andrew Buncombe in Washington Not one brick has been laid, not one piece of timber has been erected. But already this home comes with a price tag of $155m (£79m) and has triggered considerable controversy. The price for the property being planned for central...
National Park Service to Allow Commercial Bioprospecting in Parks — Public Interest Groups Cry Foul
Edmonds Institute (EI) Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Alliance for Wild Rockies (AWR) PRESS RELEASE — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contacts EI: Beth Burrows, (425) 775-5383, beb@igc.org Mike Bader, (406) 721-4835, mbader@montana.com PEER: Jeff Ruch,...
Suit Filed Over Grizzly Habitat
by James Hagengruber Spokesman Review Staff Writer Environmentalists say logging would further threaten bears in Selkirks Helicopters hauling logs out of North Idaho's grizzly bear country threaten the bears almost as much as using logging trucks, according to a...
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