Wilderness Podcast

Montana's Collaborative Nightmare | Michael Garrity | Alliance for the Wild Rockies | Ep. 054

February 18, 2023 Wilderness Podcast Episode 54
Wilderness Podcast
Montana's Collaborative Nightmare | Michael Garrity | Alliance for the Wild Rockies | Ep. 054
Show Notes

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Mike’s career evolution.
  • How the Alliance for the Wild Rockies has been able to maintain its mission and integrity over the decades.
  • The origins of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA).
  • Why the Alliance sues the Forest Service more than any other environmental group in the country.
  • Wild Montana, Greater Yellowstone Coalition and The Wilderness Society’s promotion of harmful logging projects and the destruction of wilderness quality lands as part of a culture and system of corruption.
  • What greases the skids of conservation collaboratives. 
  • The public’s overwhelming support of roadless lands in Montana. 
  • The ecological price of continuing motorized and mechanized recreation in roadless areas. 
  • The importance of quiet to native wildlife and the human animal.
  • The who, what and why of "conservation” collaboratives. 
  • The disastrous Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act. 
  • The many threats from road building. 
  • The Lincoln Property Proposal.
  • The Gallatin Forest Partnership.
  • What true protections should look like under 30x30.
  • How to start turning the tide for wildlands across the Northern Rockies. 

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies
The good, bad, and ugly of Tester’s Blackfoot-Clearwater Stewardship Act
TWS's Roadless Report
The Bader Report (Gallatin Forest Partnership)






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