Mike Garrity
Commentary: A big win for lynx and grizzly bears in Montana.
Mike Garrity writes, "Unfortunately, the Legislature also passed, and our Republican governor signed, a new bill allowing trappers to use snares that trap anything and everything caught in the snare. These traps not only trap wolves but also threatened lynx and grizzly bears."
Commentary: It’s not the ‘environmental activists,’ it’s the Forest Service’s illegal plans
Mike Garrity writes, "Instead of repeatedly blaming “environmental activists” for making the Forest Service follow the law, our politicians need to ensure that the agency breaks this pattern of developing illegal projects."
Opinion: Bills contain very bad logging provisions, would worsen climate change
Mike Garrity writes, "National Forests absorb an astounding 12 percent of the carbon that America creates for free. It’s proven that unlogged and old-growth forests absorb the most carbon, which now exist only in wilderness areas where they’re protected from logging."
Opinion: An unbelievably awful logging project for grizzly bears
The Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population is in bad shape. The most recent minimum population estimate for this population is 47 bears, and the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan requires 100 bears for the minimum viable population.
Opinion: Don’t hack the Cabinet-Yaak
Mike Garrity writes, "The Alliance and its members will not stand idly by and watch the federal government drive this imperiled grizzly population into extinction for the sake of short-sighted, private, for-profit logging operations."
Editorial: Federal court halts north Idaho logging project due to abuse of process
Mike Garrity writes, "A federal court suspended the project in light of evidence that the government likely abused the legal process when it refused to conduct a public environmental analysis for this destructive project."
Commentary: Remove non-native fish without poisoning our streams and water
If Wyoming is using non-poisonous alternatives to restore native fish species, why does Montana persist with the North Fork of the Blackfoot project, especially when other ‘poison and plant’ experiments have had very low success rates on flowing streams?
Commentary: Conservation groups continue to fight bull trout ‘extinction’ plan
Michael Garrity writes, "The illegal Bull Trout Recovery Plan would allow the federal government to remove bull trout from Endangered Species Act protections as long as only 147 individual populations go extinct out of 611 total populations."
Commentary: Alliance for the Wild Rockies files 2nd lawsuit to stop north Idaho logging
The Forest Service is once again trying to manipulate the public by using the fear of wildfire as a cover for yet another logging operation in the nation’s dwindling old-growth national forests. This is rare habitat for the endangered Selkirk grizzly bear.
Opinion: Big National Forest clearcuts continue despite biological impacts
Mike Garrity writes, "As if 8.6 square miles of clearcuts in grizzly bear and lynx habitat aren’t bad enough, the project will also require bulldozing in 56.8 miles of new logging roads."