Proposed Route of Pacific Northwest Trail Stirs Concerns
KPAX-TV, the Missoula-based news station that serves much of Western Montana, recently covered the debate over the proposed route of the Pacific Northwest Trail.
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Black Ram Hearing – February 6th
The year 2025 begins the 9th calendar year of our defense of the ancient forest at Black Ram, in the northwest corner of Montana’s Yaak Valley. As part of our ground-truthing of the Black Ram proposal and the ancient inland rainforests that help comprise it, we have realized the necessity of preserving the area as…
Comments Needed – Help Save Yaak Grizzlies
As we wrote last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed a plan to manage grizzly bears as a new, smaller distinct population segment (DPS). Under this plan, the area in which grizzlies are currently protected via the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which encompasses the lower 48 states, would be drastically reduced…
USFWS Decision Keeps Federal Protections But Allows For Killing Measures
On January 8th, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) rejected petitions from the states of Wyoming and Montana to strip federal Endangered Species Act protections from grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The decision also addresses a court-ordered settlement with the State of Idaho, denying a petition to the US Fish and Wildlife…
2024 Annual Meeting – September 7th
Come check out our new office space that sits along 17 Mile Creek nestled between the Saddle Mountain and Roderick Roadless areas in the Yaak. We will have presentations from both YVFC Staff and a Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Bear Management Specialist. Please bring a potluck dish to share, a chair, and your favorite…
Can One Tree Save a Forest? Find Out at the Black Ram Guitar Fest
Can a single tree, once a seed and now a guitar, inspire a movement to save an ancient forest? The Black Ram Guitar Fest, set for September 28, 2024, at The Wilma in Missoula, is betting on it. This groundbreaking event, presented by The Montana Project in partnership with the Maclean Literary Festival and Whitefish…
Climate Aid: The Voice of the Forest To Be Held In Portland, Maine On October 15, 2023
The event will benefit the creative grassroots environmental movement to protect the ancient “Black Ram” forest in Montana’s Yaak Valley—birthplace of the Black Ram guitar—as well as all remaining mature and old-growth forests on U.S. public lands. The evening will advance the efforts to protect the Black Ram forest by designating the region as the…