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American Prairie bison grazing lawsuit update
Montana

Dispute over American Prairie bison grazing on BLM land moves to federal court

  • John Riley NonStop Local Reporter

The American Prairie Foundation bison grazing dispute on public federal lands has moved into federal district court. This week, both American Prairie and the Western Watersheds Project filed lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management in the United States District Court for the State of Montana.

A win in the fight for old growth and grizzlies in Northern Idaho | Mike Garrity
Missoula

A win in the fight for old growth and grizzlies in Northern Idaho | Mike Garrity

  • MIKE GARRITY

Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.