Environmental

Judge Halts Plan to Eliminate Secure Grizzly Bear Habitat in Northwest Montana

Victory: Ruling preserves 36,700-acre grizzly reserve in Stillwater State Forest

Grizzly and cubs in Yellowstone National Park.
Grizzly bear and cubs. National Park Service Photo

MISSOULA, Mont.—(ENEWSPF)—August 22, 2014. A federal judge has blocked a planto carve new roads into a 36,700-acre block of secure grizzly bear habitat within the Stillwater State Forest in northwest Montana. The judge’s ruling, issued late Thursday, preserves the “Stillwater Core” grizzly bear habitat from elimination under a plan by the State of Montana that called…

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