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Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Critical Wildlife Connectivity Corridor from Massive Forest Service Clearcutting and Burning Project in South Tobacco Root Mountains 

Photograph Source: Eric Kilby – CC BY-SA 4.0

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, Gallatin Wildlife Association and Council on Wildlife and Fish is taking the Forest Service to court to stop a massive clearcutting and burning project in the South Tobacco Root Mountains in southwest Montana. The Forest Service’s plan illogically and illegally destroys important habitat for four endangered species instead of protecting and recovering them as required by the Endangered Species Act. The project area is about 10 miles north of Virginia City and authorizes 3876 acres of logging including 578 acres of large clearcuts, and burning 12,420 acres, much of it sage grouse habitat.

Severs critical grizzly bear connectivity corridor between Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem

The project includes habitat removal for the vital South Tobacco Roots connectivity corridor that is........

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