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Hi John,
In the Yaak Valley of Montana, a tiny, isolated population of about 25 grizzly bears is clinging to survival.
The U.S. Forest Service greenlighted a massive logging project that would destroy their home — so we just filed a new lawsuit to stop it.
You can help us by giving today to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
Clearcutting and bulldozing logging roads for this project could go on for a decade — and decimate the old-growth forests these grizzlies have lived in down through the generations.
The Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service admit the project will likely do serious harm to the bears, but they said yes to it anyway.
This business-as-usual approach to wildlife and public lands is driving the extinction emergency and climate crisis. Government agencies responsible for protecting imperiled species and precious forests instead do the bidding of private industry.
The Center was founded to confront situations exactly like this. When government or industry wants to bulldoze a magnificent landscape, we'll stand up and go to court — in this case, defending the home of a species that has come close to vanishing from the lower 48.
More than 190 species of birds and many other native animals — including wolves, Canada lynx, wolverines, mountain goats, bighorn sheep and black bears — roam the 2.2-million-acre Kootenai National Forest.
Clearcutting this habitat is a disaster for the climate as well as wildlife. Mature and old-growth trees absorb and store significant amounts of carbon.
We can't imagine a world without these majestic grizzly bears. And we demand that our national forests be protected, not cut down to allow for bulldozers and trucks to run rampant.
Please help with a donation to the Saving Life on Earth Fund.
For the wild,
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