The Gallatin Wildlife Association would like to clarify the most recent article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle concerning litigation over what is known as the South Plateau Landscape Area Timber
Environmental groups filed a new lawsuit to stop the South Plateau Landscape Area Treatment Project that would expand logging and clearcutting near West Yellowstone — arguing the project would negatively
A second group conservation organizations sued the federal government this week seeking to block a project that would clear cut and commercially log 12,000 acres of forest and build more than 50 miles of temporary roads in Montana and Idaho near Yellowstone National Park.
When Crevice Mining Group made moves in 2021 to establish a gold mine on lands directly upslope from the Yellowstone River and in plain view from Yellowstone National Park, the team who successfully stopped mining in Gardner Basin and Paradise Valley went to work. Scott Christensen, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, announced this week they had raised the $6.25 million dollars needed to buy out the mining group s claim. "People care about the park, and the lands that surround it, its wildlife, its water resources," Christensen outlined. " .
This is the last weekend to get involved in a photo competition designed to encourage Montanans to explore the wilderness with their pets. There are 30 million acres of publicly owned land in Montana - nearly a third of the state. As part of an effort designed to get people in touch with public lands, conservation groups are holding a photo contest that encourages people to enter photos of themselves with their dogs in the great outdoors and post them to the competition website. .