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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.
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...
AWR Files Lawsuit: East Reservoir Project
A lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in federal court Monday challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to authorize a large logging, burning, and road-building project in rare habitat for threatened lynx and grizzly bears on public lands in...
Carole King Sings Praises of Northern Rockies Plan
by Dylan Brown, E&E reporter From E&E News PM Singer-songwriter Carole King made the rounds in Washington, D.C., today promoting legislation that would designate as wilderness 23 million acres in the Rocky Mountains. A resident of Sun Valley, Idaho, King has made the...
USFS “Legacy Lands”
Judge Clarifies USFS must Analyze New Acres before Logging in Swan Federal Court Reaffirms Ruling Protecting Endangered Species on 111,740 Acres of National Forest Lands Court Order, Dec 8, 2014 (PFD)
Federal Court Reaffirms Ruling Protecting Endangered Species on 111,740 Acres of National Forest Lands
Contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The federal district court in Montana reaffirmed and clarified its September 2014 ruling that the U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the National...
Habitat Win for Grizzly, Lynx
Judge: Hebgen Logging Project needs USFWS Assessment for Bears, Lynx Hebgen-area Logging Project Faces Another Delay Conservation Groups Win Victory for Yellowstone Grizzlies and Lynx Court Order, Dec 5, 2014 (PDF)
Judge: Hebgen Logging Project needs USFWS Assessment for Bears, Lynx
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer A timber sale along Hebgen Lake is on hold until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analyzes possible threats to grizzly bears and Canadian lynx. Last Friday, Great Falls District Court Judge Brian Morris agreed with two...
Judge Clarifies USFS must Analyze New Acres before Logging in Swan
by Rob Chaney The U.S. Forest Service can't carry out previously planned logging projects on 111,740 acres of land it got from The Nature Conservancy without doing its own analysis first, according to a federal judge. The case affects a big transfer of former Plum...
Conservation Groups Win Victory for Yellowstone Grizzlies and Lynx
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council won an important victory in federal court today for the grizzly bear and lynx that make their home on the...
Hebgen-area Logging Project Faces Another Delay
by Brett French A long-delayed logging project near the west shore of Hebgen Lake has hit another snag. In an order signed Friday, U.S. District Court judge Brian Morris of Great Falls has instructed the Gallatin National Forest to conduct a "site-specific biological...
Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly on the Ropes
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Federal agency denies critical habitat for the imperiled Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies said, "Today the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service...
Ninth Circuit Court Rules for Alliance for the Wild Rockies on Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Hazing
Contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today for the Alliance for the Wild Rockies on their lawsuit trying to stop hazing of grizzly bears by Helicopters near Yellowstone...
Environmental Group Claims Victory in Ruling on Helicopter Hazing of Bison
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Despite an appellate court's ruling allowing helicopter hazing of bison, an environmental group is happy about the precedent they won: namely the standing they can use in future lawsuits. On Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of...
Buffalo Hazing
Environmental Group Claims Victory in Ruling on Helicopter Hazing of Bison Ninth Circuit Court Rules for Alliance for the Wild Rockies on Yellowstone Grizzly Bear Hazing Court Order (PDF)
Groups Sue Over Critical Lynx Habitat
Four conservation groups filed suit Monday in Missoula federal court, challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's designation of critical Canada lynx habitat in the lower 48 states. The national Sierra Club, Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Wild, Montana-based...
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