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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.
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...
Delisting of lynx based on pending court date, not science
Contact Noreen Walsh and demand that Fish and Wildlife Service retract its recommendation to delist the lynx! The science, facts, and law require a recovery plan for this imperiled species, not the complete elimination of protections. Noreen Walsh, Regional Director,...
Moose Creek Vegetation Project FOIA documents
Below are links to documents related to the Moose Creek Vegetation Project Freedom of Information Act request put forth by AWR. Click links to download documents. 4-26-2011Mt.govFieldGuides 2017DMMooseCreekPressRelease 2672-2672.24a 2672.24b-2676.17c...
Rocky Mountain Groups to Challenge Yellowstone Grizzly De-Listing
MISSOULA, Mont. – Three Rocky Mountain conservation groups – Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Western Watersheds Project, and Native Ecosystems Council – today submitted a Notice of Intent to litigate the administration’s decision to remove the Yellowstone grizzly bear population from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) threatened species list.
Grizzly Timber Sale FOIA FY2016-80 Final Response
Click below to view the Grizzly Timber Sale FOIA FY2016-80 Final Response FY2016-80 Final Response Letter
Federal District Court issues injunction stopping Stonewall Timber sale that threatens lynx habitat
CONTACT: Mike Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406 459-5936 The Federal District Court in Missoula on Tuesday issued a Preliminary Injunction sought by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council against the Helena -...
Donate for TV ads to stop yellowstone bison massacre
We are racing to stop the immediate and unnecessary slaughter of wild bison in Yellowstone National Park. We are putting up billboards and running ads on local television in Montana encouraging people to call Governor Steve Bullock who has the power to fight back...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Lawsuit Forces Federal Agencies to Consult on Dams in Bull Trout Critical Habitat
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed suit in federal court in Portland, Oregon against the Army Corp of Engineers, the Bonneville Power Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation in July 2016 for failing to complete consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Stop the Yellowstone Massacre of Bison
This week billboards went up west of Bozeman on the highway leading to Yellowstone National Park and in Helena near the state capitol building asking Governor Bullock to “Stop the Yellowstone Massacre.” This is the headline message overlaying a stark winter landscape...
Conservation Groups Challenge Blackfoot Timber sale that threatens elk, grizzly bear and lynx habitat
Two conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit in Federal District Court in Missoula Friday challenging the Stonewall Vegetation Project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest about 4 miles northwest of Lincoln,...
Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears get day in court
By ROB CHANEY [email protected] Originally published in The Missoulian here. Whether grizzly bear numbers in northwest Montana are stable, shrinking or growing, both sides of a lawsuit over their federal status agree there aren’t enough of them. But lawyers for...
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