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North Fork Blackfoot River Scapegoat Wilderness Montana

August 06, 2021

Scapegoat Wilderness poisoning stopped

On July 22, 2021, Wilderness Watch and allies filed suit in the U.S. District Court for Montana asking for a preliminary injunction and/or temporary restraining order to halt the State of Montana’s North Fork Blackfoot Westslope Cutthroat Trout Project—a massive stream poisoning and fish stocking project in the Scapegoat Wilderness

July 29, 2021

Re-list wolves as “endangered” throughout the West

Citing “inadequate regulatory mechanisms” in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, and a lack of minimum viable populations of wolves in all other western states, Wilderness Watch joined a coalition of 70 conservation, Indigenous, and animal welfare groups in filing a formal petition on July 29 with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-list the gray wolf as an endangered species throughout the American West under the Endangered Species Act.

July 09, 2021

Don’t mar the Mt. Rainier Wilderness

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is seeking approval from the National Park Service (NPS) to install 12 monitoring stations in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington for detecting lahars, a proposal that includes years of unwarranted helicopter incursions and unnecessary permanent structures that will mar this spectacular Wilderness.

June 25, 2021

Scrap a grazing plan for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Wilderness Watch is urging the Forest Service to drop its proposal to issue permits for cattle grazing in three vacant allotments in the Gros Ventre Wilderness, plus an adjacent allotment located between the Gros Ventre and Bridger Wildernesses, all within the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming.

June 23, 2021

Montana/Idaho put on notice over extreme new hunting laws

In summer 2021, Wilderness Watch and several allies put the states of Montana and Idaho on notice of our intent to sue over their barbaric new wolf-killing laws that could not only kill up to 85 or (90 in the case of Idaho) percent of wolves in the state, but injure and kill other rare species such as grizzly bears and Canada lynx.

June 14, 2021

Grazing doesn't belong in Table Mountain and Alta Toquima

Wilderness Watch is urging the Forest Service to drop its plan to issue permits for cattle grazing in four allotments in the Table Mountain and Alta Toquima Wildernesses in Nevada that haven’t been grazed for nearly 30 years. The Monitor-Toquima Range Vacant Grazing Allotment Project includes year-round grazing in two livestock grazing allotments.

Central Yukon Management Plan needs much improvement

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