The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot National Forest. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit on September 9th against the Bitterroot National Forest seeking to […]
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Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled species and shield their habitat from destruction after the measures were rolled back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for animals and plants newly […]
Backcountry skier captures rare video of wolverine tearing across the snow in Wyoming at ‘impossible’ speed: Creature is only one of 15 in the wild, says wildlife supervisor
A backcountry skier was excited to spot a Wyoming wolverine near the Montana state line. Nick Gaddy caught a wolverine on video sprinting on an alpine snowfield near Cooke City, Montana, on December 18. It was the skier’s second wolverine he’d ever seen and the first one he captured on Instagram. Wolverines were recently added […]