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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.
Judge halts trench across Clark Fork River
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Lawsuit stops work on pipeline replacement Arguing that there was too little environmental review or public notice, environmentalists won a court order on Friday stopping the Yellowstone Pipe Line Co. from excavating a 6-foot-deep...
New Law Review Article Details the Efforts to Prevent Bull Trout Listing
A new law review article details the pattern of delay used by the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior in an attempt to prevent a listing of the bull trout. Listing the Bull Trout Under the Endangered Species Act: The Passive-Aggressive...
It’s not easy Being Green
by Sherry Devlin, the Missoulian Republican says her party is off base on environment Martha Marks is a Republican and an environmentalist, and she doesn't understand why the Grand Old Party isn't greener. Or why people keep asking her when she's going to become a...
Forest Service Pulls Out of Timber Sale after Decision Appealed
AWR Release Last June, District Ranger Dave Campbell authorized a large scale project in the Nez Perce Fork drainage on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. This decision affected a project area of 92,000 acres, and would have allowed logging within the...
Poll Shows Westerners want more Wilderness
The Associated Press Most people living in the West believe not enough national forest land has been designated as wilderness, according to a poll commissioned by three conservation organizations. The poll, conducted by the Mellman Group Inc. and released Tuesday,...
NREPA Lobby Week, March 13–17
The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), H.R. 488, has experienced a swelling of support recently as activists from around the country converged on Washington, D.C. for a week long lobby effort sponsored by AWR, The Sierra Club, and Idaho Conservation...
Bi-Partisan Coalition Introduces the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
AWR Release Bi-partisan coalition introduces the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act Washington, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Christopher Shays (R-CT) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) led a bi-partisan coalition of House members today in introducing The Northern...
NREPA: Ecology Meets Politics in the Northern Rockies
by Mike Bader Wild Earth Magazine Winter 1998-99 Wilderness Revival—Campaigns The Northern Rockies region of the US – a land of great beauty and diversity – contains virtually the entire native biota that existed at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition....
Bull Trout Victory!
The bull trout has finally been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act! This is a major victory for watershed protection and restoration, native species, and conservation biology. This action, announced by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on...
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