Two lawsuits filed in federal court seek to overturn a new policy by the Bureau of Land Management revoking federal grazing permits for bison herds in Montana. American Prairie, a conservation organization that owns and leases vast swaths of land in eastern Montana, has grazed a herd of more than 900 bison on federal land […]
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.
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
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.
A U.S. District Court judge ruled that the stay, requested while the park completes a supplementary environmental impact statement due to later bison migrations in winter, “invites abuse of discretion.”
A consolidated lawsuit brought over a 2024 bison management plan in the Greater Yellowstone Area will move forward after the U.S. District Court in Billings denied the federal government’s request to pause the suit. Alliance For the Wild Rockies and Council on Fish & Wildlife brought the suit at the beginning of January against the […]
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming. — A Washington man is injured and recovering after a bull bison charged him in Yellowstone National Park over the weekend.
The texts were just one of seven exhibits the state is seeking to add to the administrative record in Montana's lawsuit challenging Yellowstone's 2024 Bison Management Plan.
A 12-year-old was taken to the hospital after being injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park today. Park officials are reminding visitors to never approach, touch, feed or crowd wildlife.
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
