CHOTEAU — Officials with state Fish, Wildlife and Parks said Tuesday the state can no longer afford to study the long-term population trend of grizzlies in northwest Montana without financial help from federal agencies.
If the monitoring abruptly ends because of the funding pinch, delisting efforts would be set back years, the FWP officials said.
April 25, 2007
Montana: Officials warn grizzly studies in NW part of state in trouble due to funding
Montana: Bill would designate vast wilderness areas
A wilderness designation generally prohibits timber harvesting and permanent roads, structures and facilities. Hunting, fishing and other non-motorized recreational activities generally are allowed.
Maloney and Shays said the bill would protect some of the country’s most beautiful and ecologically important lands. They said it would save taxpayers $245 million over 10 years by managing the land as wilderness and eliminating “subsidized development” there.
Washington: Creation of Wild Sky Wilderness a good move
Three different times, the Senate bill died in the Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives.
Montana: Wildlands are Montana’s future
Every season, citizens of the world thank those who had the courage and foresight to designate Yellowstone, Glacier, Bob Marshall, Absaroka-Beartooth and other national parks and wilderness areas. The Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in Montana bear the names of conservation heroes dedicated to protecting public wildlands.
Virginia: People responsible for forest fires
Fire officials have determined that two fires sparked Sunday on national forest land were the result of human activity.
Both fires have been contained.
California: Groups sue to stop drilling in Los Padres National Forest
LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST - Three environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service this week, hoping to block plans to expand oil and gas drilling in Ventura County’s Los Padres National Forest.