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08/09/2025

08/07/2025

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.

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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 west...

08/01/2025

The Idaho study ranchers are celebrating quietly admits what they won’t: current grazing levels are too high for sage-grouse to survive.

07/30/2025

Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into a Superfund site. Libby’s tremolite asbestos lurked in the shadows for decades until determined citizens brought the hidden killer to light. But too late for more than 400 people who...

07/30/2025

07/29/2025

We are taking the Flathead National Forest to court over this project because the agency is violating its own Forest Plan rules for protecting old growth forest and grizzly connectivity requirements. The surest way to keep grizzly bears from recovering is allowing the Forest Service to continue their massive deforestation of the West.

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, Yellows...

07/25/2025

We’re losing one of Montana’s greatest legacies –clean, cold rivers teaming with wild, not hatchery-raised, trout.

Columnist George Ochenski wonders how a city can get away with selling state-owned water to rich out-of-staters.

07/18/2025

The pipeline was approved despite the fact that the Forest Plan rates this area “high” for potential sage grouse habitat. One of the greatest harms to greater sage grouse is habitat fragmentation from utility corridors. Given that the pipeline route is within 12 miles of a documented sage grouse breeding ground, that means the area for the pipeline corridor should remain intact to provide nesting, brood-rearing, and winter habitat for sage grouse.

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.....