Yaak Valley Forest Council member and author Rick Bass’s story “Those Who Refuse to Be Chosen” has been published in the book “Love Can Be: A Literary Collection About Our Animals”, and can now be view in PDF format here.
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…
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 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…
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…
On August 17, 2023, a federal judge ruled against the United States Forest Service in the Black Ram logging case, effectively halting the project. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Donald W. Molloy found that the USFS violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) with regard to the climate harms of logging thousands of…
YVFC is happy to announce that you can now purchase a YVFC-sponsored Montana specialty license plate featuring art by Monte Dolack! Please keep us in mind as you renew your license plates this year. Buying a customized plate financially supports the YVFC mission and helps raise awareness everywhere you go! See the official plate here.