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Groups Sue to Include More Area as Lynx Habitat
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Wildlife advocates Monday sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a third time for limiting the amount of habitat that would be protected for lynx. The groups — the Sierra Club, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Rocky...
Law of the Land: How Litigation has Shaped the Forest Service
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record While many people may decry litigious environmental groups and point fingers at judges that rule in the groups' favor, it's hard to deny that they have often prevailed in court, and the federal government has been found in violation...
Tester and Daines Wrong on Equal Access to Justice Act
by Michael Garrity, Opinion The IR's recent article on citizen enforcement of natural resource laws would have been more informative for readers had it concentrated on why the Forest Service keeps losing lawsuits over and over for the same reasons instead of the fees...
Taxpayer Subsidized Logging Makes No Sense
by Michael Garrity, Opinion, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies The Oct. 1 article in the IR about the Cabin Gulch logging project reports a claim by the manager of the RY Timber mill in Townsend that the Forest Service makes money on logging. However,...
Conservationist Coalition Halts Lindbergh Lake Logging
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Federal District Court in Missoula ruled yesterday for four conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, and Native...
Judge Halts Glacier Loon Timber Sale in Swan Valley
by Dillon Tabish A federal judge has halted a logging project near Lindbergh Lake in the Swan Valley, siding with conservation groups that argued the U.S. Forest Service had disobeyed environmental laws. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy on Thursday blocked the...
Court Halts Glacier Loon Timber Sale, Flathead National Forest
Judge Halts Glacier Loon Timber Sale in Swan Valley Conservationist Coalition Halts Lindbergh Lake logging Court Order, Sept. 25, 2014 (PDF) Related Stories from 2013 Conservation Groups Sue Over Timber Sale Around Lindbergh Lake Compliant, June 24, 2014 (PDF) Project...
Lawsuit Challenges Bridger Canyon Timber Sale
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Environmental groups have sued to stop a logging project near Bridger Bowl Ski Area, claiming it would destroy too much wildlife habitat. But a new federal rule could make it harder for them to win. On Wednesday, the Alliance...
South Bridger Interface Project, Gallatin National Forest Challenged
Lawsuit Challenges Bridger Canyon Timber Sale South Bridger Interface Project EA, Press Release Proposed Action Map, USFS, Gallatin National Forest
BLM must Study Lynx after Halting Timber Sale near Ovando
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Federal officials have halted a timber sale near Ovando and agreed, with two conservation groups, to analyze the impacts on the federally threatened Canada lynx. In an order released Sept. 8, the Bureau of Land Management remanded its...
Lynx Concerns Halt BLM’s Chamberlain-Wales Logging/Burning Project
BLM must Study Lynx after Halting Timber Sale near Ovando BLM pulls Logging Project in Lynx Critical Habitat after Conservation Groups’ Appeal Court Order (PDF) Motion to Vacate (PDF)
BLM pulls Logging Project in Lynx Critical Habitat after Conservation Groups’ Appeal
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pulled a previous decision to go forward with a 2,700-acre clearcutting, thinning, and road-building project after the Alliance for the Wild...
Proposed Action Map, USFS, Gallatin NF
Map (PDF)
South Bridger Interface Project EA, Press Release
Original press release published here.
Conservation Group Sues over Right-of-way to Jefferson County Mine
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Citing deficiencies in environmental analysis and impacts on wildlife, a conservation group is asking a federal judge to stop road improvements to a gold mine in Jefferson County. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed the complaint...
Mining and Road Building in the Elkhorns
Conservation Group Sues over Right-of-way to Jefferson County Mine Alliance for the Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit to Stop Mine Ore Road in Elkhorn Wildlife Management Area Copy of Compliant (PDF) Locator Map (jpg) BLM Environmental Assessment (PDF) Golden Asset Access...
Alliance for the Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit to Stop Mine Ore Road in Elkhorn Wildlife Management Area
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is challenging a decision by the Bureau of Land Management's ("BLM") to approve a mining company's plan to change a two-track primitive road in...
Nez Perce National Forest Little Slate Timber Sale
9th Circuit Silences Idaho Logging Operation
9th Circuit Silences Idaho Logging Operation
by George Prentice A logging operation, which just recently started up in North-Central Idaho but has been the target of environmentalists for more than two years, has been told to silence its blades. The Little Slate Project covers about two square miles in the...
Kootenai National Forest: Judge Blocks Logging Project in Grizzly Bear Habitat
by Associated Press HELENA — A federal judge has blocked a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest over concerns that roads built for the project may harm a threatened population of grizzly bears. In approving the 36,600-acre Pilgrim project, the U.S. Forest...
Challenging the 2014 Farm Bill
Conservation Groups File First Lawsuit against Logging Designated under Farm Bill Lawsuit Challenges Expedited West Yellowstone Logging Project
Conservation Groups File First Lawsuit against Logging Designated under Farm Bill
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Two conservation groups made the first legal challenge to a logging operation excluded from environmental analysis and public review under the 2014 Farm Bill. On Thursday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems...
USFWS Proposes Revised Lynx Habitat
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a new lynx habitat rule after being sanctioned by a federal district judge in Missoula. On Thursday, the USFWS published draft economic and environmental analyses of the areas...
Lawsuit Challenges Expedited West Yellowstone Logging Project
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service to stop a West Yellowstone logging project intended to be the first to not require public comment under the new Farm Bill. On Thursday, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and...
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