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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...
Cabinet–Yaak Grizzly Bears Still in Peril
Intensive government DNA hair snag survey only finds 38 individual bears—at least 100 bears needed for a viable population Group Sues to have Cabinet Bears ‘Uplisted’ Group Sues to Reclassify Montana Bear Population Group Sues U.S. for Stronger Idaho, Montana Grizzly...
Response to FOIA Request
Response to FOIA Request
Groups Demand Bull Trout Recovery Plan
by www.newsbf.com Citing the fish stock's "precarious state," Friends of the Wild Swan and Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a legal complaint Tuesday in federal court in Portland, Oregon, faulting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to complete recovery...
Environmental Group Sues for Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Project Records
by KEIC Staff MISSOULA, Mont. — The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is suing the U.S. Geological Survey saying the agency failed to respond a Freedom of Information Act Request. According to federal court documents, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies submitted a FOIA...
Groups Demand Recovery Plan for Bull Trout
PORTLAND, OR. (AP) — Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit demanding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finish developing recovery plans for bull trout, a threatened species that has gone 15 years without a blueprint for saving it from extinction. The lawsuit was...
USFWS Lacks Bull Trout Plan
Groups Demand Bull Trout Recovery Plan Groups Demand Recovery Plan for Bull Trout Groups Sue USFWS over Bull Trout Recovery Plan
Groups Sue USFWS over Bull Trout Recovery Plan
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Two Montana environmental groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for again failing to follow Endangered Species Act requirements, this time as they relate to bull trout. On Tuesday, the Alliance for the Wild...
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