Conservation

A second Held v. Montana lawsuit challenges three new laws passed in 2025, alleging violations of ‘clean and healthful environment.’

Mike Garrity writes, "For grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, wolverine, and bison there is no "boundary” around Yellowstone National Park."

Categorical exclusion six allows the Forest Service to authorize certain commercial logging projects without any environmental analysis, but conservation groups say the agency exceeded its authority.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has “assumed jurisdiction” of three American Prairie grazing rights cases, according to a memo obtained by the Western Ag Network.

Chris Scranton writes, "The idea that the federal Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects such areas from machinery, development and overcrowding, could be undone bothers me, and it should bother you, too."

The inter-agency organization that oversees grizzly bear recovery has lost time, due to the government shutdown, and maybe employees, so it can’t update the public as it has in years past.

The northern spotted owl has been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act since 1990.

Recent stream research shows that arctic grayling are going to need more protection to survive in the Big Hole River as summers continue to warm and drought dominates.

The Center for Biological Diversity, a group petitioning for the protections, lambasted the Trump administration for the decision.

Georgia Good writes, "By moderating wolf policy, FWP can protect the traditions, wildlife, and lands that make Montana great, before it loses the right to do so."