Photo: National Park Service With 2.1 million cattle in Montana, one might expect Governor Gianforte and our congressional delegation to know where cattle actually get brucellosis. But unfortunately, the governor and delegation appear locked into outdated, unscientific, and unsupported false assumptions that wild Yellowstone bison have transmitted brucellosis to cattle. They have not. The grim […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Sitting between two towering mountain ranges, Montana’s Paradise Valley is aptly named. Cradling the mighty Yellowstone River that flows from Yellowstone National Park, the valley provides critical habitat to all the native species still present 200 years after Lewis and Clark’s expedition, including grizzly bears, wolves, and wolverines. In recent decades, grizzly bears in the […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
A foggy morning at Calispell Meadows on the Colville National Forest in northeast Washington – Photo courtesy USFS Once again the Alliance for the Wild Rockies caught the Forest Service breaking the law, took the agency to court, and won. This time a Washington federal court has thrown out the Forest Service’s decision for the […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Buffalo Horn drainage in Gallatin Range. Photo by George Wuerthner There’s a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone National Park and comprising the core of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. These lands are primarily in the Gallatin and Madison Ranges which are facing […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Bull Trout by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in 1998. Yet the Forest Service wants to bulldoze and clearcut some of Montana’s few remaining, most pristine, bull trout watersheds that flow out of […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Dead fish from a creek earlier this summer when temperatures in Montana hit triple digits. (Photo by Larry Campbelli). Anyone who drives around the state of Montana right now can see one unassailable truth: our state’ renowned rivers and the prized fish which inhabit them are in big trouble. From east to west, north to […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Photo by Gary Kramer USFWS In an amazing court victory for wild wolves and advocates who tirelessly speak on their behalf, the federal district court in Missoula, Montana ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act when it determined that gray wolves in the western United States do not warrant federal protections. […] The post Wolves can’t go to court, so we went for them and won appeared first on Alliance For The Wild Rockies.| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alliance for the Wild Rockies sues Flathead Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop another massive clearcutting project west of Whitefish, Montana Four conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Council on Wildlife and Fish, Yellowstone to Uintas Connection, and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit […] The post Alliance Sues Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop another massive clearcutting project west...| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Photo by USFWS The Forest Service authorized a Special Use Permit in March to allow a private company to clear-cut and bulldoze a 50-foot wide, 18.2-mile-long corridor through six National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas for construction of a gas pipeline from Montpelier, Idaho to Afton, Wyoming. But here’s the deal: The pipeline was approved despite […] The post A new gas pipeline will destroy dwindling Sage Grouse Habitat — but you can help stop it appeared first on Alliance For The...| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an estimated 58 million acres of public Forest Service land to road-building, resource extraction, and development. The Roadless Rule resulted from extensive inventories of the nation’s remaining roadless public lands beginning in 1967 after the historic […] The post Why we need the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act now more than ever appeare...| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
Photo: Richard Prodgers Using the fear of wildfires, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are spending billions of taxpayer dollars to intentionally burn millions of acres of National Forests and BLM lands. Their plans are to continue to do so for the next 20-30 years and we can only fight them […]| Alliance For The Wild Rockies
