Search Results for: Keith Hammer

Conservationists Seek to Restore Protections for Imperiled Wildlife in Flathead National Forest

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Here’s a press release that should be of interest to readers of this blog. For Release: August 6, 2020 Conservationists to Federal Agencies: Restore Protections for Imperiled Wildlife in the Flathead National Forest Flathead Forest Plan favors resource extraction over grizzly bears, Canada lynx, wolverine, and bull trout MISSOULA, MT—Four conservation groups have filed their opening salvos in … Read more

Conservation Groups File Notice of Intent to File Lawsuit Over Flathead Forest Plan

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The following press release is from Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan and Earthjustice. A copy of the Notice of Intent is here. – mk Conservationists Challenge Abandonment of Grizzly Bear and Bull Trout Protections In Flathead National Forest New Plan for Flathead National Forest Could Fragment Wild Habitat for Grizzlies and Discards … Read more

Conservation Group Critical of New Collaborative Logging and Roadbuilding Plan

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The following press release was released today by Swan View Coalition. Kalispell, MT – A Kalispell-based conservation group is critical of a huge, landscape-scale “restoration project” announced today by the Flathead National Forest as a collaborative proposal for logging and other management activities in the Swan Valley. “Even at a glance,” said Swan View Coalition … Read more

Forester (and former Forest Service spokesperson) Frank Carroll says Environmentalists are “arsonists” and “bomb-throwers;” Mike Garrity is a “henchman;” and there’s a whole “enviro-terrorist industry.”

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You can read the entire opinion piece from Frank Carroll, co-owner of “Professional” Forest Management out of South Dakota right here. I find it shocking that the Rapid City Journal would published such a piece. Also, somewhat shocking is the fact that Frank Carroll was the official public affairs officer for the Black Hills National … Read more

TNC terminated logging agreement with Plum Creek following illegal logging

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The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has announced it’s logging agreement with Plum Creek Timber Co (now Weyerhaeuser) on 111,740 acres of national forest land in Montana has been terminated after a Federal Court ruled the logging done by TNC on Forest Service lands was illegal. The public was notified of this in the Flathead National Forest’s … Read more

Montana Wilderness Association Goes Off-The-Rails

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If anyone saw the Missoulian on  November 16th it was hard not to notice an epic, off-the-rails rant from the Montana Wilderness Association’s ‘communications manager’ Ted Brewer (entirely propped up by strawman arguments) against longtime environmental and public lands champion George Ochenski. Here’s how Ted Brewer’s Montana Wilderness Association piece opened up: Recently the Missoulian published two columns on its Opinion … Read more

Incorrect Road Data Presented to Flathead NF Collaborative

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Here’s another letter from Swan View Coalition Chair Keith Hammer to the Flathead National Forest and the Meridian Institute.  The letter is shared with Mr. Hammer’s permission, as it is part of the public record. The letter also highlights more problems and frustrations with the “collaborative” process as being carried out by the Forest Service … Read more

More Flaws in Flathead NF “Collaborative” Process

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For a few years now some of us have been trying to hammer home the point – based on our actual experiences – that not all Forest Service “collaborative” processes are created equal, and in some cases, lead to even greater feelings of mistrust and frustrations. One such recent example of a questionable “collaborative” process … Read more