Mike Garrity

Alliance for the Wild Rockies understands that when the government breaks the law and destroys the essential habitat upon which endangered species like grizzly bears rely, the only way to stop the destruction is to file a lawsuit. Last month, we prevailed in a lawsuit for exactly this purpose.

This time we stopped government plans to build roads and log 5,000 acres of public land in occupied grizzly habitat in the Cabinet-Yaak area of Northwestern Montana. The Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears are the most isolated and imperiled population in the country and their recovery is crucial to the recovery of grizzly bears in the lower 48 states.

The best available science from decades of research finds that reducing roads — both official legal roads and illegal user-created roads — is

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