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Government Burning of Public lands is Harming Humans and Killing Millions of Birds

Using the fear of wildfires, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are spending billions of taxpayer dollars to intentionally...

06.05.2025 10

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Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Immense Logging and Burning Project in Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest

The Manti–La Sal National Forest stretches from central Utah to southeastern Utah and into Colorado. The 1,413,111-acre forest contains the La...

24.02.2025 2

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Conservation Advocates Sue Flathead Forest Service to Stop Massive Clearcutting West of Whitefish, Montana

If anyone wonders why we’re taking the Forest Service to court over the Round Star logging project, there is one primary reason: lynx critical...

10.01.2025 4

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Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges BLM Plan to Gut the Garnet Mountain Range

The Garnet Mountains lie between the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers, stretching from Bonner to east of Drummond, Montana.  They are south of the...

05.12.2024 10

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Top Ten Things Alliance for the Wild Rockies Did to Protect the Northern Rockies Ecosystem in 2024

1) Halted Massive Illegal Old Growth Logging in Montana’s Little Belt Mountains. The Alliance stopped the Horsefly logging and burning project in...

02.12.2024 20

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Don’t Mourn, Organize

A phrase attributed to labor organizer Joe Hill is fitting for this moment:  “Don’t Mourn.  Organize.”  Or in the words of writer Ed Abbey,...

08.11.2024 2

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Old Growth Logging Challenged in Bitterroot National Forest

The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical...

10.09.2024 20

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First Things First: Designate all Greater Yellowstone Wilderness Study Areas as Wilderness

There’s a boiling controversy right now over the future of hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest Service lands abutting Yellowstone National...

04.09.2024 1

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Mike Garrity