by Web Editor | Dec 3, 2014 | News, News/PR
Lincoln County officials and representatives of the timber industry are cautiously optimistic about the prospect of additional logging activity after the Kootenai National Forest approved the sale of roughly 39 million board-feet of timber northeast of Libby. Kootenai...
by Web Editor | Nov 5, 2014 | News, News/PR
The Helena National Forest is proposing a timber and vegetation project across 25,000 acres of a 61,500-acre area in the Ten Mile drainage, with the goal of improving forest and stream health, including water quantity and quality for the city of Helena’s water supply...
by Web Editor | Sep 8, 2014 | News, News/PR
At least one of the two conservation groups suing over the Red Mountain Flume-Chessman Reservoir project, a planned Montana timber harvest, plans to proceed with a lawsuit despite a federal judge saying the groups are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their case...
by Web Editor | Jun 30, 2014 | News, News/PR
Two conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the Red Mountain Flume Chessman Reservoir timber project that officials say is necessary to protect Helena’s water supply. The Montana Ecosystems Defense Council and the Native Ecosystems Council filed...
by Web Editor | Jun 23, 2014 | News, News/PR
Two conservation groups made the first legal challenge to a logging operation excluded from environmental analysis and public review under the 2014 Farm Bill. On Thursday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...