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Forest Service Faces Lawsuit over Roads Critics say it’s Breaking Promise to Remove Routes to Save Grizzlies
from staff and wire reports MISSOULA — Conservationists are accusing the Forest Service of dragging its feet on a legal promise to start removing forest roads to help save endangered grizzly bears in the Idaho Panhandle and northwestern Montana. "We thought we had a...
Groups Sue Forest Service Over Big Hole Fire Proposal
by Perry Backus, The Montana Standard DILLON — The Forest Service and two environmental groups evidently don't see eye to eye on a proposal to work on portions of the Mussigbrod and Middle Fork fires that burned in 2000. And now it's going to be up to a federal judge...
Judge Halts Salvage and Restoration Work in Lolo National Forest
by Molly Villamana, Greenwire reporter Roughly 35 million board feet of timber slated for harvest in Montana's Lolo National Forest will remain standing unless state regulators establish water quality standards for rivers and streams affected by the logging and other...
Judge Stops Illegal Lolo National Forest Logging
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936 Bob Clark (406) 549-1142 Eric Huber (303) 449-5595 MISSOULA Judge Molloy rules that the Forest Service must protect water quality and stops Lolo Post Burn logging project. Federal District Judge Donald Molloy ruled in a...
Appeals Filed Against Local Forest Plan
by Eve Byron, Independent Record Staff Writer Seven appeals have been filed in opposition to a Helena National Forest management plan for the Clancy/Unionville area south of town. Five of the appeals came from motorized vehicle proponents, who mainly claim that the...
FWS Withdraws Approval of White Pine Timber Sale in Vital Grizzly Bear Habitat; AWR Likely to Settle Lawsuit
MISSOULA—In a letter to the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was withdrawing its decision to give a green light to the White Pine timber sale on the Kootenai National Forest. The Forest Service must now initiate "formal...
Conservation Groups Stop Illegal Forest Service Plans to Clearcut Upper Bighole
contacts Michael Garrity, The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Sara Johnson, Native Ecosystems Council, (406) 285-3611 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, The Ecology Center and Native Ecosystems Council announced today that the Forest Service withdrew...
Group Takes Legal Action Against Timber Sale in Grizzly Bear Linkage Corridor
contacts Michael Garrity, (406) 459-5936, (406) 721-5420 Dan Rohlf, (503) 768-6707 MISSOULA—A Montana-based conservation organization has filed a notice to sue the U.S. Forest Service for violations of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a related action, the...
First the Cut, Now the Run
by Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan Plum Creek Timber Company announced that it has plans to sell 20,000 acres in the Swan Valley. While it has indicated that it would sell 10,000 acres in grizzly bear linkage zones to the federal government it has yet to...
Groups File Suit to Protect Bull Trout Habitat
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Attorney says government has not followed guidelines in the Endangered Species Act Two environmental groups that pushed — for seven years — for the federal government to protect bull trout as a threatened species filed suit Monday to...
Report: Grazing is Costing Taxpayers
by Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News American taxpayers lose at least $128 million a year — and potentially up to $1 billion — subsidizing cattle grazing on millions of acres of public lands across the West, according to a new study commissioned by conservation...
Summer Field Trips, 2002
Western Montana/Northern Idaho Area Hikes Protect Roadless Areas July 27 Bob Clark with the Great Burn Study Group takes us into the Great Burn proposed wilderness area near Granite Peak to monitor for illegal off-road vehicle activity. The Great Burn is one of the...
The North American Wilderness Conference, May 3–5, 2002
Save This Date For Wilderness! The North American Wilderness Conference, May 3-5, 2002 The North American Wilderness Conference 2002 will be held in Seattle, Washington at The Mountaineers Building. Preserving North American wild land and waters in the United States,...
Wilderness Steward: Darby Resident Receives Wilderness Society’s Highest Award
Alliance for the Wild Rockies advisory board member, Stewart Brandborg, received the Wilderness Society's highest honor, the Robert Marshall Award. AWR congratulates Stewart on this excellent achievement. To learn more about Stewart and the Society's award, please...
Judge Upholds Old-growth Logging Injunction
by Arlene Montgomery, Friends of the Wild Swan Montana District Court Judge Sherlock re-affirmed his injunction against old growth logging on state school trust lands after the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) attempted to sidestep his original...
A Memorial Potluck for Paul Fritz is Scheduled
Under the leadership of Ed Robertson of Boise, a memorial potluck and remembrance of Paul Fritz, who died of cancer on Christmas eve, will be held on Saturday May 12, 2001. The Memorial will be at Craters of the Moon National Monument where Paul was the Superintendent...
Roadless Plan Faces Likely Vote in Congress
To: All Activists From: Steve Holmer The Bush Administration and Western Republicans in Congress may try to roll back the roadless area protection policy to allow for new oil and gas development, commercial logging and road construction. The Bush Administration has...
Roadless area Conservation Rule
prepared by Mike Anderson, The Wilderness Society Summary The final roadless area conservation rule prohibits road building and logging in national forest roadless areas with some exceptions, such as logging to reduce the risk of unnaturally intense fires. The rule...
Twenty Years of Efforts have Not Solved the Roadless Area Issue in the National Forests
by Mike Dombeck Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service Twenty years of local planning efforts, wilderness debates, appeals, lawsuits, and injunctions have not solved the issue of long-term management of some 50 million acres of roadless areas in...
U.S. Forest Service Misrepresenting effects of Logging and Ecosystem Management Treatments
contact Keith Hammer at (406) 755-1379 KALISPELL—By misrepresenting the historic condition of ponderosa pine forests in its educational posters, the US Forest Service is also misrepresenting to the public the effects of logging and ecosystem management treatments...
Take Action Early and Often in the Year of the Roadless Area
by Mike Bader, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies For the modern conservation era, barely a century old, the calendar changeover to the year 2000 represents an opportunity to consolidate momentum and establish lasting conservation policies to guide us...
Political Fires Still Rage
by Mike Bader, AWR's executive director The summer fires have been extinguished by heavy autumn rains but debate over western forest policy continues. The election year fires have generated extensive comment. Timber opportunists were quick to play the blame game,...
More Space Part of Bear Necessities
by Karl Puckett Tribune Staff Writer Great Falls Tribune Report shows griz recovery areas too small A paper published this week in a scientific journal argues that grizzly bears need a lot more space if they're to survive longterm. The report, "Spatial Needs of...
Court rules that Resorts on Wild Salmon River Must Go!
In a major victory for Wild and Scenic River protection nationwide, a federal court has ruled that three resorts on the Wild and Scenic Salmon River in central Idaho must be removed. The ruling by U.S. Circuit Judge Sidney R. Thomas found that, "the law is clear: the...
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