Good news is hard to find. But for imperiled wolverines, two new efforts are giving hope for the future. With only about 300 wolverines in the entire Lower 48, FOC achieved a huge win when the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) finally listed wolverines in December 2023. However, we are not resting on our […]

Public Lands should serve the Public Good The following list is just some of the work that we do everyday to ensure that our public lands are used for their highest and greatest good—as refuge for Wild Nature. 1. We are advocating for Roadless Wildlands The Trump administration set it's sights on rescinding the 2001 […]

Trump targets 40 million acres of wild, roadless national forests for development. Comment now!

How a near invisible network of roots and fungi help keep our forests healthy.

The fisher is a rare carnivore in the weasel family that lives deep in the forests of North America.

The USFWS is proposing new rules for guiding grizzly bear management. Comments are due March 17th, 2025.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is changing direction on grizzly management in the Lower 48. FOC and allies have crafted a vision for what that recovery might look like in the Northern Rockies.

This article was first published in the Spring 2024 edition of the Clearwater Defender. You can have the Defender delivered straight to your house when you become an FOC member. Natural History Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) are eel-shaped jawless fish. Lamprey aren’t actually eels, but a kind of very primitive cartiliginous fish, like sharks and […]

NOTE: This article was published in the Spring 2024 edition of the Clearwater Defender, and is now somewhat dated. If you are interested in receiving articles like these to your home or inbox, consider becoming a member here. Grizzlies in the Bitterroot Ecosystem In last summer’s Defender (summer 2023) we reported on the results of […]

On April 8, wildlife advocacy and conservation groups including Friends of the Clearwater filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Montana, intending to gain protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the gray wolf in the states of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. This action comes on the heels of the Feb. 7 […]