Mike Garrity
![Voices: Alliance for Wild Rockies stops road building, logging in Critical Roadless Area](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/08/timber-sale.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Voices: Alliance for Wild Rockies stops road building, logging in Critical Roadless Area
Mike Garrity writes, "The Forest Service could have avoided this lawsuit had the agency kept its word and honored the agreement it signed with Helena citizens and city officials to not bulldoze new logging roads in roadless areas in Helena's Ten Mile watershed."
![Letters: Removing roads a big win for Grizzlies in Northern Rockies](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/12/grizzly-bears.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Letters: Removing roads a big win for Grizzlies in Northern Rockies
Mike Garrity writes, "The Forest Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service aren't doing their legally-mandated jobs to recover grizzlies in the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirk as required by the Endangered Species Act and the excessive number of roads is a big factor."
![Letters: Conservation groups challenge killing of Yellowstone grizzlies](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2020/05/grizzlies.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Letters: Conservation groups challenge killing of Yellowstone grizzlies
MIke Garrity writes, "No grizzlies should be killed for cows — especially in the Upper Green River watershed where more grizzlies are being killed than being born — and we are more than willing to take this fight to court to stop the Trump administration from carrying out this needless slaughter."
![Voices: Wild Rockies files lawsuit to stop logging, burning in roadless area](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/01/lynx.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Voices: Wild Rockies files lawsuit to stop logging, burning in roadless area
Mike Garrity writes: "It’s unfortunate that we have to go to court to ensure that the Trump administration follows existing law. But we’re talking about the Rocky Mountain Front here, an area described as the American Serengeti because of its incredible wildlife."
![Montana voices: We can fireproof our homes, but not our forests](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/08/2017_08_01-12.15.35.128-CDT.jpeg?w=980&q=75)
Montana voices: We can fireproof our homes, but not our forests
Private, for-profit timber companies have already over-cut the private forest lands in the West and now Sens. Diane Feinstein and Steve Daines want to allow them to “cut and run” on our publicly-owned national forests.
![Single-story downtown building under renovation collapses](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/03/building.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Single-story downtown building under renovation collapses
The building on 601 Woody Street, the former home of K&C Meats, was in the process of remodeling when the front-facing wall toward Alder Street appeared to be bowing out and eventually caved in, according to Bill Porteous, Lead Building Instructor for Missoula.
![Montana voices: Reject Daines’ position that USFS is above the law](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/09/letters.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Montana voices: Reject Daines’ position that USFS is above the law
U.S. Senator Daines seeks to add a rider on the Farm Bill to take away citizens’ rights to sue the federal government on Forest Service decisions. What he seems to have forgotten is that the U.S. Constitution gives people the absolute right to challenge federal government decisions in court.