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Elk collaring project in Idaho wilderness captures wolves by ‘mistake’

Rob ChaneyMissoulianJan 13, 2016 Idaho wildlife managers trapped and collared four wolves by mistake in an elk-collaring project already facing legal challenges for using helicopters in a federal wilderness area. “(Idaho Department of) Fish and Game officials realize this mistake affects the agency’s credibility and takes the matter seriously,” IDFG spokesman Mike Demmick wrote in…

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Film company fined for wilderness violations

Posted: Friday, February 19, 2016 10:31 am | Updated: 5:22 pm, Fri Feb 19, 2016.By SAM WILSON/Daily Inter Lake The owners of a Missoula-based film company were issued 38 state and 11 federal citations for violating bull trout regulations and filming illegally in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Zach and Travis Boughton, the owners of Montana…

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Stop trying to make biking in wilderness happen

High Country NewsTim Lydon Opinion March 12, 2016  I shouldn’t be writing this, and you shouldn’t be reading it. Far more pressing issues face our public lands. But a vocal minority is drudging up the long-resolved question of mountain biking in wilderness. They have even drafted a bill for somebody to introduce in Congress —…

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Water managers look to Alpine Lakes for more water

Associated Press By PHUONG LE May 29, 2016 SEATTLE (AP) — Seven spectacular high-country lakes in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness for decades have helped irrigate hundreds of acres of pear, apple and cherry orchards in the Wenatchee Valley and supplied water to a federal hatchery. Now, with increased pressures on water supplies, managers are looking to…

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Army drops plans to land helicopters in Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Other areas in state still under reviewMethow Valley News By Marcy StamperApril 14, 2016 The U.S. Army has dropped its plans to use landing zones in the North Cascades to train combat helicopter pilots. The decision came after a review of 2,350 public and agency comments, according to an announcement issued Thursday (April 7) by…

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A wild plan for the Gallatin Range

Bozeman Daily Chronicle By Howie Wolke, guest columnistMay 11, 2016 Recently, about 130 people attended a panel discussion regarding a proposed wilderness plan for the Gallatin Range. An informal group called Montanans for Gallatin Wilderness sponsored the event. As the moderator, I briefly discussed wilderness as an exercise in selflessness, something that is necessary for…

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Groups Sue to Stop Mine in Cabinet Mountains Wilderness

Courthouse News Service By PHILIP A. JANQUART April 5, 2016 MISSOULA, Mont. (CN) – U.S. Forest Service approval of a 30-year-long mining project puts threatened populations of bull trout, grizzly bears and water resources at even greater risk, and could despoil a wilderness area for a century, environmentalists say in court.
      Save Our Cabinets, Earthworks…

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The Wilderness Act Got it Right

Oppose this bill allowing mountain bikes in our wildness: Edward ZahniserBy PennLive Op-Ed on January 03, 2017 at 12:00 PM, updated January 03, 2017 at 4:27 PMBy Edward Zahniser My father, Howard Zahniser, the primary author of the 1964 Wilderness Act, considered Tionesta, Pennsylvania his hometown. Zahnie, as my father was known, was not at…

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Interviews

Radio Interviews Minnesota Public Radio News, A look back at 50 years of the Wilderness Act: 9/3/14 The Idea of Wilderness, Kevin Proescholdt – St. Paul, Minnesota, This I Believe podcast: 9/1/14 History Speaks, The Boundary Waters, interviews conservation director Kevin Proescholdt: 5/24/13{mp3}History-speaks-the-boundary-waters-05-24-2013{/mp3} KUFM, Montana Public Radio interview with Wilderness Watch on the Wild &…

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