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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.
Conservation Groups Will Sue Feds to Stop Massive Timber Sale in Critical Habitat for Snake River Steelhead
Since time immemorial Pacific salmon and ocean-run steelhead trout have fought their way up the tumultuous waters of the Columbia and Snake Rivers to spawn in the headwater streams that flow west from Idaho’s towering snow-capped mountains. Their vast numbers fed...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit to Stop Logging and Burning Project in Rocky Mountain Front Inventoried Roadless Area
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit on April 3rd in Federal District Court in Great Falls, Montana to stop the Elk Smith Project on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. The project seeks to non-commercially log and/or burn 10,331 acres in the Elk...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Sues Trump’s Bureau of Reclamation for Bull Trout Fatalities in Saint Mary-Milk River Irrigation Project on the east Side of Glacier National Park
Bull trout are one of the largest native salmonids in Montana, capable of reaching three feet long and 25 pounds or more. A spectacularly beautiful fish, they once occupied an enormous range from the Rockies to the Pacific coast to the Yukon. But due to habitat...
The Nature Conservancy and BLM Collaborate to DeFacto Privatize and Destroy Our Public Land
By Mike Garrity In a recent article the Bureau of Land Management, The Nature Conservancy, and local ranchers claimed that removing conifers, mainly juniper trees, on public lands increases and improves habitat for sage grouse, big game, and other species that rely on...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins court challenge to ineffective road closures in Kootenai Grizzly Bear Recovery Zones
Additional press on this topic here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/10/11/how-the-alliance-for-the-wild-rockies-stopped-trump-from-bulldozing-cabinet-yaak-and-selkirk-grizzly-bears-into-extinction/ Press Release - October 3, 2019 CONTACT: Mike Garrity, Executive...
Conservation groups sue Forest Service for ignoring court order stopping 85,000 acre Payette Forest Logging and Burning Project
See coverage of this issue in Counterpunch here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/20/trump-administration-ignores-court-order-stopping-85000-acre-payette-forest-logging-and-burning-project-conservation-groups-sue/ PRESS RELEASE November 15, 2019 Contact: Mike...
CONSERVATION GROUPS AGAIN CHALLENGE INADEQUATE BULL TROUT RECOVERY PLAN
See coverage related to this press release here: https://missoulian.com/news/local/groups-sue-to-stop-bull-trout-plan/article_c18088aa-6265-5ee3-a45b-494899c6e33e.html FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2019 Contact: Arlene...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies protects Glacier National Park and Rock Creek Bull Trout
See coverage of this press release here: https://missoulacurrent.com/outdoors/2019/11/bull-trout/ Press Release November 23, 2019 Contact: Mike Garrity Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406 459-5936 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has agreed to...
Why we must stop BLM’s Pleasantview logging and burning project
Originally published in the Idaho State Journal here. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it has to log and burn thousands of acres in Idaho’s Pleasantview Mountains, west of Malad, Idaho, to improve aspen stands and habitat for mule deer and elk. To do so, the...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Logging and Burning Project in Methow Valley
Orginally published on Counterpunch.org here. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has mounted a legal challenge against the Mission Restoration Project on National Forest lands in the Methow Valley west of Twisp, Washington. This pristine, remote rural area is...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins court challenge to ineffective road closures in Kootenai Grizzly Bear Recovery Zones
“In a nutshell,” said Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, “the Forest Service contended that if it puts a berm on an existing road it’s considered effectively closed to motorized traffic. We showed the court that people were driving...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Logging and Burning Project in Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court yesterday challenging the Mission Restoration Project in the Methow Valley Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest west of Twisp, Washington. The Methow Valley is a...
Group Threatens Lawsuit Over St. Mary Bull Trout Fatalities
Originally published here: https://flatheadbeacon.com/2019/10/03/group-threatens-lawsuit-st-mary-bull-trout-fatalities/ A conservation group says improper irrigation practices on the St. Mary River east of Glacier National Park have led to the deaths of hundreds of...
Alliance to Sue Trump Administration for Bull Trout fatalities
Alliance for the Wild Rockies sends 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue Trump Administration for Bull Trout fatalities in Saint Mary Diversion Dam & Canal and Milk River Irrigation Project "Bull trout are listed as ‘Threatened’ under the Endangered Species Act,” said...
Emergency Alert For The Wild Rockies
DONATE NOW Inspired by Yellowstone grizzly bear scientists Frank and John Craighead, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies formed in 1988 to protect the whole ecosystems and connecting wildlife corridors that comprise the Wild Rockies bioregion. Our mission is to protect...
AWR Opinion Piece in New York Times
A Landscape Lewis and Clark Would Recognize Is Now Under Threat Logging, mining and development loom over the Northern Rockies. By Mike Garrity and Carole King Mr. Garrity, a fifth-generation Montanan, is the executive director of Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Ms....
Rep. Maloney makes another push for 5-state wilderness area
New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D) has reintroduced sweeping legislation to permanently protect 23 million acres of pristine public lands and 1,800 miles of rivers and streams in five Western states, something she has pushed for more than a decade. The bill, H.R. 1321,...
Baseless GOP Rants Against Environmentalists by George Ochenski
We just had a week in which our nation saw its president openly laughed at in front of the United Nations by the world’s leaders for his ridiculous braggadocio about his own success. Then the Senate Judiciary Committee blatantly ignored additional sexual abuse...
Why we need one connected grizzly bear population
Originally published here. When U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen issued his the order that reversed the Trump administration’s decision to take Yellowstone ecosystem grizzly bears off the threatened species list he did so for the best of reasons: Isolated...
Using wildfires as an excuse to plunder forests
Originally published in the Idaho State Journal. President Donald Trump recently blamed environmental protections for the loss of homes and lives in wildfires in California, and followed up that groundless suggestion by strongly implying that increased logging could...
Judge extends order blocking grizzly hunt
Originally published here... A federal judge has blocked the start of grizzly bear hunting seasons for another two weeks while he finishes a ruling on the legality of ending Endangered Species Act protection for bears around Yellowstone National Park. “There remain...
Appeals court ruling halts giant forest project in Idaho
By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho Originally published here... A giant forest project in Idaho is on hold following a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision Monday halts the 125-square-mile (325-square-kilometer) project on the...
Judge halts logging project along Yellowstone National Park’s border
Originally posted here... A logging project proposed along the northwestern border of Yellowstone National Park has been halted by a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling. On Aug. 13, Judge Dana Christensen found in favor of the Native Ecosystems Council and the Alliance...
Federal Appeals Court rules East Reservoir logging project violates the law
Calling it “one of the worst logging projects in decades,” Mike Garrity, Executive Director for the Alliance for the Wild Rockies announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in the Alliance’s favor in its legal challenge to the East...
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