Daily Montanan

Why sue the Forest Service? Because the federal government won’t follow the law

Columnist Mike Garrity says that conservation groups have to sue the United States Forest Service not just to protect the ...
The MSU ExponentOpinion

Conservationists sue the FS to stop Cooke City deforestation project on the border of Yellowstone National Park | Mike Garrity (copy)

Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available ...
Bozeman Daily ChronicleOpinion

Mike Garrity: Groups challenge removal of wildlife protections on 1.1 million public acres

Four Montana-based Conservation Groups — Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Gallatin Wildlife Association, Native Ecosystems ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Mike Garrity: Wolverines can't wait — government must designate critical habitat to stave off extinction

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Wolverines in the lower 48 States were trapped, hunted and poisoned to near extinction in the ...
Independent Record

Mike Garrity: Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act: Last Best Chance for the Last Best Place

Montana and the Northern Rockies are facing an unprecedented wave of development that is fracturing wildlife habitat, threatening water quality, and seeing vastly increased logging of our national ...
Idaho State Journal

Mike Garrity

Thank you for Mike Garrity’s column about forest fires plaguing Idaho and Montana. My family in Montana says they’re prisoners in their home—unable to do anything outdoors because of intense smoke. AP ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Mike Garrity: Elk, not wild bison, have transmitted brucellosis to Montana cattle in every case

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. With 2.1 million cattle in Montana, one might expect Gov. Gianforte and our congressional ...