MONTANA, IDAHO Unless they make it by their own devices, grizzly bears likely won’t return to the Bitterroot Mountains anytime soon. On June 20, Interior Secretary Gale Norton set aside a Clinton-era plan to reintroduce the bears to the wilderness of central Idaho and western Montana. Under the old plan, grizzly recovery would have been […]
Sherry Devlin
Posted inDecember 4, 2000: Road Block
Grizzlies invited back to the Bitterroot
The feds give locals control of bearreintroduction
Posted inSeptember 19, 1994: Flame and blame in the Northwest
Wolf provokes inadvertent howlers
Never before have so many citizens had so much to say about a federal project: bringing wolves back to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho later this fall. By the time comment-taking ended this year on an environmental impact statement about the plan, 160,264 people had put their opinions on paper. Reactions were generally strident, […]
Posted inMarch 21, 1994: On the borderline
Timber companies export logs – and jobs – to Asia
SUPERIOR, Mont. – An unusual alliance of environmentalists and millworkers has asked the government to close loopholes that let timber companies export logs from private ground in Washington and Oregon, then buy timber on national forests in Montana and Idaho. The exemption, allowed under a 1990 law that banned exports from state forests, costs Montana […]
Posted inMarch 7, 1994: Pay as you waste, says EPA
Ex-logger Andrus says our forests are overcut
FAIRMONT HOT SPRINGS, Mont. – Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus used his time at the podium during a rare meeting of Forest Service district rangers Feb. 16 to complain that timber-sale goals in national forest management plans were boosted by politicians eager to please big timber companies. “Your ASQs (allowable sale quantities) are not accurate. They […]
Posted inMarch 23, 1992: Special issue: An alternative to the bumpersticker approach to grazing
Grizzlies lack enough room to roam
Just 44 percent of the “nuisance” grizzly bears trapped and relocated in the northern Rockies survive two years without getting into trouble again, says a wildlife biologist for the state of Montana. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/24.5/download-entire-issue
Posted inFebruary 22, 1993: The continuing saga of New Mexico's Gray Ranch
Montana wolves lose their advocate
Wolf biologist, Mike Jimenez, loses his job in Ninemile Valley, Montana. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Montana wolves lose their advocate.