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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.
Native Ecosystems Council, The Ecology Center, and The Alliance for the Wild Rockies File Lawsuit Against Caribou-Targhee National Forest Over Flawed Revised Forest Plan
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2005 Wild Rockies Rendezvous
2005 Wild Rockies Rendezvous September 23 to 25, 2005 Wilderness Gateway Campground on the Clearwater National Forest You are invited to attend a weekend of events including workshops, roundtable discussions, hiking and live music. A coalition of environmental groups...
Snow Talon Timber Sale Reduced
by Eve Byron Helena Independent Record - 08/31/05 A project to log 26 million board feet of timber burned on 2,700 acres in the 2003 Snow Talon fire will be cut back after no one bid on the initial proposal. That lack of bidders is causing the Lincoln Ranger District...
Judge Rebuffs Rock Creek Mine Approval
by Michael Jamison, the Missoulian KALISPELL - A controversial plan to mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness was pulled off the table Wednesday, with a court ruling that federal wildlife officials put grizzly bears and bull trout at risk when they approved the...
Judge Nixes Cabinet Mountains Copper and Silver Mine
by Susan Gallagher - Associated Press Writer - 03/31/05 HELENA—A proposed copper and silver mine challenged by environmental groups — and by jeweler Tiffany & Co. — has been sidelined by a judge who found federal officials gave approval without adequately...
Conservation Groups Challenge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service AWR Permit for Copper and Silver Mine in Sanders County, Montana
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Weeds vs. Native Plants: Some Recent Literature
by Tony Tweedale Everyone acknowledges that invasive plants ("weeds") can harm native ecosystems. But land stewards as the USFS, and BLM seem to see only the invasives, and disregard a crucial variable: something has to change for an invasive to become established in...
Bull Trout Still Threatened Says New Report
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936 Mike Bader, (406) 721-4835 Arlene Montgomery, (406) 886-2011 Jack R. Tuholske, (406) 721-6986 Threats Remain, Elimination of Critical Habitat a Serious Blow to Recovery MISSOULA—A new report recently submitted to the U.S. Fish...
Bull Trout Still Threatened Says New Report; Threats Remain, Elimination of Critical Habitat a Serious Blow to Recovery
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Groups Sue Government for Illegally Cutting Bull Trout Habitat
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936 Mike Bader, (406) 721-4835 Jack Tuholske, (406) 721-6986 MISSOULA—The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan conservation organizations filed suit today in Federal Court in Portland, Oregon challenging the...
The Greater Wild Rockies
In recognition of increasing biological evidence, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies board of directors recently expanded AWR's active area of concern in the greater Wild Rockies to the Uinta and Wasatch Mountain Ranges in Utah and south into the Dixie National Forest...
Preliminary Injunction Granted to Stop Logging in the Targhee
BOISE—Conservation groups announce today that U.S. District Court of Idaho, Judge B. Lynn Winmill granted a preliminary injunction stopping the McGarry Timber sale in the Targhee National Forest, stating that the plaintiffs will likely prevail on its claim that the...
Alliance Says Forest Plan Amendments for Yellowstone Grizzly “A Classic Prescription for Eventual Extinction”
contacts Michael Garrity, (406)459-5936 Mike Bader, 9406)721-4835 Plan's Area is Too Small and Failure to Protect Linkages Leaves the Population Isolated MISSOULA—In comments submitted Friday, the Missoula-based Alliance for the Wild Rockies challenged the U.S. Forest...
Agencies New Plan for Grizzlies a “Dead-end Road to Extinction”
contacts Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Mike Bader, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 721-4835 Dan Rohlf, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, (503) 768-6707 Marc Fink, Western Environmental Law Center, (208) 342-2216 Conservation...
Logging the Last of the Old Growth
by Paul Richards Queen City News, Helena, Montana Great-Grandmother stood tall when I recently visited her home above Unionville. She's still stunted from that lightning strike about 100 years ago, but her beauty remains undaunted. She's around 350 years of age, with...
Conservation Groups Challenge Government for Eliminating Bull Trout Critical Habitat
contact Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 886-2011 MISSOULA—The groups who successfully sued to have the bull trout listed under the Endangered Species Act today filed a 60-day notice of...
Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Gallatin Timber Sale
by Associated Press HELENA - A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a timber sale in the Gallatin National Forest that environmentalists claim would damage wildlife habitat near Yellowstone National Park, an attorney said Sunday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Jarbidge River Proposed as Critical Habitat for Bull Trout
by Sandra Chereb, Associated Press Writer RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Jarbidge River - home to the southernmost population of bull trout and a source of contention between the federal government and citizen activists - would be declared critical habitat for the threatened...
Targhee National Forest’s Revised Forest Plan Threatens Yellowstone Grizzly Bears and Other Wildlife
contacts Dr. Sara Jane Johnson, Native Ecosystems Council, (406) 285-3611 Michael Garrity, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Jeff Juel, The Ecology Center, (406) 728-2320 Conservation Groups File suit challenging illegal Forest Plan for Targhee...
Settlement Reached in Rock Creek Logging Lawsuit
contact Michael Garrity, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and the Ecology Center announced today that they have reached a settlement with the Forest Service on the proposed Rock Creek Timber Sale. Michael Garrity,...
Environmental groups say more forest roads need to be closed to protect grizzlies
Associated Press MISSOULA (AP) - Seven environmental groups filed an administrative appeal Monday, saying a Forest Service plan doesn't close enough roads to help protect grizzly bears in the Lolo, Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle national forests. Grizzly bear...
Conservation Groups Release Government’s Censored Cost-Benefit Analysis of Bull Trout Critical Habitat
contacts Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Kelly, Friends of the Wild Swan, (406) 586-0180 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Friends of the Wild Swan demanded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service release the full cost-benefit...
Conservation Groups Seek Protection for Goshawk in Northern Rockies
contacts Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 243-6643 Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Groups Petition Forest Service to Protect Northern Goshawk Habitat The Center for Biological Diversity, Alliance for the Wild...
$1 Million Logging Proposal Threatens Rock Creek Fishery and Adjacent Roadless Areas
contact Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Gilbert (406) 443-0671 Damon Cox (406) 327-9320 Jeff Juel, The Ecology Center, (406) 728-5733 (HELENA) A U.S. Forest Service proposal to spend over a million dollars logging portions of three...
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