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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...
Montana Wilderness Bills
A New Kid on Block? Environmental Cred is Contested Democratic Senate Candidate Adams Supports Broad Wilderness Bill Tester’s Bill will Devastate a Precious Ecosystem Montana Opinion: Other State Wilderness Bills are before Congress Map, Forest Jobs & Recreation Act...
A New Kid on Block? Environmental Cred is Contested
by John S. Adams, Tribune Capital Bureau HELENA — Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Dirk Adams is trying to position himself as the environmental candidate in the three-way race for the Democratic nomination. But some of Adams' critics say the political newcomer has only...
Democratic Senate Candidate Adams Supports Broad Wilderness Bill
by Gazette State Bureau HELENA — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dirk Adams said this week he supports a regional wilderness bill that would designate an additional 6.4 million acres of wilderness in Montana. Adams, a rancher from Wilsall, said if he's elected, he'd...
Court Orders USFS/USFWS to Revisit Proposed Fleecer Logging Project
Map National Forest Reconsiders Effect of Roads on Wildlife 2013 AWR archives - articles about USFS Fleecer Project [add link later] 2012 AWR archives - articles about USFS Fleecer Project [add link later]
National Forest Reconsiders Effect of Roads on Wildlife
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer In response to a court order, the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest has revised its environmental study addressing road-density requirements over almost 3.4 million acres of forest in southwestern Montana. The...
AWR Director Named Grassroots Activist of the Year
by Shane Castle A Helena man who has been characterized by at least one U.S. Forest Service manager as a "tenacious SOB" has been named grassroots environmental activist of the year. Mike Garrity, director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, recently received the...
Group files Suit to Halt Timber Sale on Lewis and Clark National Forest
by Tom Kuglin, Independent Record The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Great Falls, to stop the Forest Service's Blankenship Vegetation Treatment Project near Monarch, over concerns for Canadian lynx, goshawk and wolverines. The...
Defender of the Rockies
Why Mike Garrity is Conservationist of the Year AWR Director Named Grassroots Activist of the Year
Defender of the Rockies: Why Mike Garrity is Conservationist of the Year
by Jeffrey St. Clair Five years ago, I was sitting at a campfire in the foothills of the Bridger Mountains of western Montana, with a few close friends, sipping whiskey while watching a dazzling sunset dissolve behind the ragged peak of Haystack Mountain on the...
Lawsuit Challenges Little Belt Logging Project
by Laura Lundquist, Chronicle Staff Writer Seeking to preserve lynx habitat, a Montana environmental group has sued to stop a 1,100-acre National Forest logging project in the Little Belt Mountains. On Wednesday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit to...
Blankenship Logging and Burning Project, Lewis and Clark National Forest
Blankenship Logging and Burning Project Challenged by Alliance for the Wild Rockies Group files Suit to Halt Timber Sale on Lewis and Clark National Forest Lawsuit Challenges Little Belt Logging Project Suit is Filed to Block Project; Alliance says Lynx not Included...
Suit is Filed to Block Project; Alliance says Lynx not Included in Survey
by Karl Puckett, Tribune Staff Writer The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit Wednesday to block a forest logging/prescribed fire project in the Little Belt Mountains, alleging the U.S. Forest Service failed to properly survey the area for the presence of...
Blankenship Logging and Burning Project Challenged by Alliance for the Wild Rockies
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 Steve Kelly, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 586-4421 The Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a Complaint in Federal District Court in Great Falls today to stop the Blankenship...
Liz Sedler – In Memoriam
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies lost a dear friend, past President and long-time activist with the passing of Liz Sedler. Activist Brian Peck wrote the following about Liz: "More than 70 years ago, Aldo Leopold said: 'Like Winds and Sunsets, wild things were taken...
Federal Government to Spend $30M on Forest Restoration
by Matt Volz, Associated Press HELENA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday it will spend $30 million this year on forest restoration projects in 12 states to reduce the threat of wildfires, protect water quality and improve wildlife habitat for at-risk...
Tester’s Bill will Devastate a Precious Ecosystem
by Steve Kelly, Opinion, Reeder's Alley, Helena Independent Record Wilderness activists remain strongly divided over Senator Tester's Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. For a long four years, Sens. Tester and Max Baucus have dodged genuine public debate on the bill's...
Map, Forest Jobs & Recreation Act (Tester’s bill)
Map, Forest Jobs & Recreation Act (Tester's bill)
Montana Opinion: Other State Wilderness Bills are before Congress
by Michael Garrity, Guest Opinion I enjoyed John Adam's excellent article on Sen. Jon Tester's logging and wilderness bill. This is the first time a reporter has done an in-depth article on Tester's bill and explained why many Montanans are opposed to his mandated...
Population estimates for 2012 Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear DNA mark-recapture study (draft)
Population estimates for 2012 Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear DNA mark-recapture study (draft)
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Stops Logging in Grizzly Bear Habitat in the Kootenai National Forest
contact Michael Garrity, Executive Director, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936 The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Alliance for the Wild Rockies's request for a temporary injunction stopping the Grizzly Timber Sale in the Kootenai National...
Ninth Circuit Blocks Kootenai Logging Project
by The Associated Press HELENA — An appeals court has temporarily blocked a Kootenai National Forest logging project under review for its possible effects on a small, threatened grizzly bear population. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday issued a two-week...
Young Dodge Logging Project: Threatening Endangered Species in NW Montana
Ninth Circuit Blocks Kootenai Logging Project Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Stops Logging in Grizzly Bear Habitat in the Kootenai National Forest Environmental Groups Sue to Block Kootenai Forest Timber Sale Massive Clearcuts Planned for Northwestern Montana Threaten...
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