pristine wildlands in our region our up for grabs
by lowbagging mining corporations. One of the
worst current threats is posed by Sterling Mining
Corporation. These people want to set up a mine
that will tunnel under the Cabinet Wilderness Area
in northwest Montana near the town of Noxon.
The Forest Service is set to give
this company to mine silver and
copper for the next 30 years.
The complex would be located
on Rock Creek and could
polluted the Clark Fork River
and Lake Pend Oreille. The
area is home to Grizzly Bears
and has critical spawning
habitat for Bull Trout. Wild
Rockies EF! will be spending a
month in the area and should
the mine get a permit we will be
in the way.
Corporations
who don’t
care!
The Northern Rockies is home to some of the
worst multinational corporations in the world. We
have the distinction of being the home of Boise-
Cascade, Plum Creek, Potlach, and Smurfit Stone-
Container. These entities run rampant, trashing the
land, closing mills, polluting our air and water.
Boise-Cascade is one of largest resource extraction
corporations in the world. They are logging in
Canada, Chile, and Mexico to name just a few
places. Boise-Cascade is also a lead plaintiff in the
case to overturn the roadless policy.They violate
workers rights and pollute on a global scale.
WREF! will do direct action to bring these corpo-
ration to account for their crimes.
Ecosystem
Restoration and Fire
Recovery
These are the new words that the Forest Service
has come up with to justify a massive increase in
logging on all the lands of the Bioregion. New and
massive sales are popping up live mushrooms on
every single forest. Almost all of the sales pro-
posed thus far included logging in roadless areas.
The Bitterroot National Forest is just proposing
the worst of the sales.
They intend
to log on 73,000 acres
and send 280
million board feet of
timber to mills
all over the place.
WREF is work-
ing with a number of
other groups
in opposing this bondogle.
The
proposels are still
in the Draft
Evironmental Impact
Stage. How-
ever, we expect that
direct action
will be needed before
the year is
done.
Bush’s
love of Oil Corps
The new adminstrations
policy on
energy is one of the
worst threats to
this bioregion. Oil
and gas leases in
Wyoming and Montana
represent a
major chanallage to
the area. The
government is renewing old plans to allow drilling
on the Rocky Mountain Front and in the Tetons.
The Front represent some of our last pristine
watersheds and is critical habitat for Grizzlys. The
new policy has a vision of lots and lots of public
land drilling and not just in the Artic National
Wildlife Refuge.
The
End of the Roadless Rule
Federal Judge Edward Lodge issued a tempory
injunction halt implementation of the roadless
rule. Many of the National Forests of our area had
sales in roadless lands before the mortorium. All
these could come back to haunt us including the
Cove/Mallard Timber Sales.
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