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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...
Conservation Group Files Suit Against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Prevent Logging of Core Grizzly in the Selkirk Grizzly Bear Recovery Area in Federal District Court in Spokane on July 3, 2006
contacts Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Liz Sedler, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (208) 263-5281 SPOKANE— A conservation group turned to the federal courts to protect critically endangered grizzly bears in the Selkirk Mountains in...
Ruling Squashes Logging Plan
by Christy Karras The Salt Lake Tribune Conservation groups won a battle against logging in Dixie National Forest with a court decision that halts a planned clear-cut on the Aquarius Plateau near Escalante. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the...
AWR Files Lawsuit Against USDA, USDI, and USFWS Selkirk Mountains Timber Sale Adversely Affecting Core Grizzly Bear Habitat
Read compliant here. (PDF)
The Ecology Center and The Aquarius Escalante Foundation File Lawsuit Against Griffin Springs Resources Management Project, Dixie National Forest, Utah
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Conservation Groups file lawsuit in Federal District Court to stop logging in the Main Boulder River Wilderness Corridor
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936 Dr. Sara Johnson, (406) 285-3611 Two conservation groups, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit today in Federal District Court in Missoula against the U.S Forest Service and Regional...
AWR and Native Ecosystems Council Challenge USFS and USFWS Main Boulder Fuels Reduction Project
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IDFG Proposal to Lethally Remove Wolves from the North Fork of the Clearwater and Lochsa Drainages
February 16, 2006 From: Liz Sedler, Sandpoint, ID 83864 To: Idaho Fish and Game, PO Box 25, Boise, ID 83707 RE: IDFG Proposal to lethally remove wolves from the North Fork of the Clearwater and Lochsa drainages Dear Sirs, Please enter these comments, submitted on...
Bond Requirement for Appeals – AWR OpEd
by Michael Garrity The Missoulian's first editorial of the year supported first amendment rights for a few but not for all Americans. The Missoulian claims that the Forest Service is right to ask for a $100,000 bond for the purpose of preventing citizens from...
Groups file a Second Lawsuit over Bull Trout Habitat
by Perry Backus of the Missoulian The two Montana-based environmental groups that forced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate critical habitat for bull trout now say the agency didn't go far enough. Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan...
Plans to De-list Yellowstone Grizzlies Announced
by Mike Bader Federal officials with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) have announced plans to remove grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park region from the list of federally protected species under the Endangered Species Act. More commonly known as...
AWR and Friends of the Wild Swan Filed Lawsuit Against U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Department of Interior, Challenging Habitat Designations for the Threatened Bull Trout in it’s 5-State Range
contacts Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan conservation organizations filed a formal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish &...
Bull Trout Complaint, U.S. District Court, Portland Division
Read Second Amended Complaint here. (pdf)
Timber Industry Hails Bond Requirement Decision
by Eric Barker Lewiston Tribune The timber industry is hailing a federal judge's decision to require a coalition of environmental groups to risk losing money if their effort to stop a logging project in Montana is determined to be without merit. But environmental...
Judge Halts Two Targhee Forest Timber Sales
by The Associated Press BOISE — A federal judge has stopped two timber sales in eastern Idaho's Targhee National Forest after determining the Forest Service doctored data to show the area had more old growth trees than may actually be standing in the region just west...
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