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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 rchaney@missoulian.com 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...
25 bison to be sent to Corwin Springs; slaughter to resume
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer Originally published in the Bozeman Chronicle here. Call Yellowstone National Park, (307) 344-7381 Tell them to stop slaughtering Bison. Call MT Gov. Bullock, 406-444-3111 After about two weeks of uncertainty, 25 bison inside...
Thin Green Line: 20 Groups Standing Between You and Doom
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Originally published by CounterPunch.com here. Last January during one of the early skirmishes in the Democratic Primaries, Bernie Sanders took a rare direct shot at Hillary Clinton and her political support group, the DC cabal of liberal NGOs....
Conservation Groups Challenge Timber sale in the Swan Valley to protect big game and fisher habitat
CONTACT: Keith Hammer, Chair of Swan View Coalition, 406 755-1379. Mike Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406 459-5936 Four conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, and Native...
Judge Blocks Montana Logging Project in Canada Lynx Habitat
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Originally published here: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/24/us/ap-us-threatened-species-logging.html HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge blocked a logging project northeast of Yellowstone National Park until federal officials analyze the...
Federal Court Stops Massive Red Lodge Area Logging Project
Calling it “one of the worst places for clearcuts,” Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, announced that a Federal District Court has granted its request for an injunction, halting a massive clearcut and logging project west of Red...
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals halts East Reservoir Timber Sale
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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted its request for an injunction halting a massive clearcut and logging...
A Victory for the Lynx
A federal court in Montana ruled Wednesday in favor of Alliance for the Wild Rockies and allies in their challenge to the federal government’s lack of protection in failing to designate critical habitat necessary for the survival and recovery of the rare and imperiled...
Judge Halts Beaverhead Deerlodge Timber Project
by Laura Lundquist Originally published here. A federal judge halted a timber project Friday because the Forest Service might have overstepped its bounds in bypassing the public process. On Friday, Missoula federal District Judge Donald Molloy put a hold on the...
Lack of Consultation on Dams in Bull Trout Critical Habitat Spurs Lawsuit
By Mike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 406-459-5936 Bull trout are already extinct in California, inhabit only one stream system in Nevada, and are “at high risk of extinction in Oregon, Washington, and parts of Idaho” according to the U.S.D.A.’s Natural...
NREPA: A wilderness bill that works
By Michael Garrity Originally published in The Missoulian here. The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, which lives up to its name, would protect the best of the last intact ecosystems and wildlands in the Rockies. For the first time, it has been introduced in...
Ambitious wilderness bill introduced in Senate for first time
By Michael Wright - Chronicle Staff Writer Originally published here. An environmental group’s proposal to designate roadless areas in the western United States as wilderness has been introduced in the U.S. Senate for the first time after more than two decades of...
Logging in Hyalite, Bozeman Creek Remains On Hold
By Michael Wright Chronicle Staff Writer More waiting is in store on a logging project south of Bozeman. A Ninth Circuit Court judge ordered this week that an existing stay on the case will continue until the U.S. Supreme Court decides what to do with a separate case...
Conservation Groups Sue Feds over Bull Trout Recovery Plan
By John S. Adams - Editor-in-Chief, MTFP.org Originally published here by Montana Free Press. Two Montana conservation groups are suing the federal government alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s plan to recover endangered bull trout is inadequate and...
Judge says climate change threatens wolverines
MATHEW BROWN Associated Press View the article here. BILLINGS -- The Obama administration brushed over the threat that climate change poses to the snow-loving wolverine when it denied protections for the elusive predator also known as the "mountain devil," a federal...
Conservation groups sue Forest Service over secret clearcut on Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
By Mike Garrity The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit against Leann Marten, the Regional Forester of the Forest Service in Federal District Court in Missoula, after discovering a secret logging project, named Moosehorn Ditch...
Nature Conservancy Ends Logging on Swan Valley ‘Legacy Lands’
Four conservation groups filed a lawsuit in 2013 claiming the U.S. Forest Service needed to analyze impacts on species, habitat BY DILLON TABISH Originally published in the Flathead Beacon here. The Nature Conservancy has canceled plans to harvest timber on a large...
Greens Fight to Save Isolated Grizzly Bears
By PHILIP A. JANQUART Originally published by Courthouse News Service. MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) - An isolated remnant of America's top predator, the grizzly bear, still survives in northwest Montana, but faces extinction because the secretary of the interior kowtows to...
Fish and Wildlife Commission gives Inital OK on Trapping Restrictions
Click here to read an article by Michael Wright (Bozeman Daily Chronicle) about successful efforts to implement new trapping restrictions. “We didn’t get everything we wanted, but it’s a good compromise,” said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the...
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