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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...
Secret Collaboration
Collaboration Extra: Legal Logging and Cranky ‘Fringe’ Groups Looking to Gum up the Works Critics Decry Lack of Public Input on Forest Proposal
Extra: Legal Logging and Cranky ‘Fringe’ Groups Looking to Gum up the Works
by Paul Edwards, Guest Columnist I see where Julia Altemus, chief lobbyist for the Montana Wood Products Association, is congratulating herself for supporting a lot more logging in Montana national forests (guest column, May 9). And she's not alone. Tom France of the...
Groups appeal Whitebark Pine Listing
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record Two environmental groups have filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals over the listing of the whitebark pine under the Endangered Species Act. The WildWest Institute and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed the notice...
Groups file Appeal for Endangered Whitebark Pine
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Not satisfied with a lower-court ruling favoring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, two environmental groups are filing an appeal asking that whitebark pine be listed as an endangered species. The Alliance for the Wild...
Endangered Whitebark Pine
Groups appeal Whitebark Pine Listing Groups file Appeal for Endangered Whitebark Pine
Group Sues to Reclassify Montana Bear Population
by The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A conservation group is suing the federal government for failing to reclassify a small population of grizzly bears as endangered. The estimated 42 Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears in northwestern Montana are considered a...
Group Sues to have Cabinet Bears ‘Uplisted’
by Jimm Mann, The Daily Inter Lake The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Missoula seeking to "uplist" the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population from "threatened" to "endangered." The group is challenging a decision from the U.S....
Group Sues U.S. for Stronger Idaho, Montana Grizzly Protection
by Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho, April 22 (Reuters) - Federal protection status for a population of grizzly bears facing extinction in the mountains of Idaho and northwest Montana should be raised to endangered from threatened, environmentalists said in a lawsuit...
Critics Decry Lack of Public Input on Forest Proposal
by John S. Adams, Tribune Capital Bureau HELENA — Critics of Gov. Steve Bullock's recent nomination of 5.1 million acres of U.S. Forest Service land as priority for "restoration" say the public was left out of the process. On April 7, Bullock, a Democrat, announced he...
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