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CITIZEN TASK FORCE

Healthy Forests. Clean Water. Wild Places

Forest Service Drops Appeal On Logging Grizzly Habitat

The Lolo National Forest has dropped plans to defend logging and thinning the Soldier-Butler project in the Ninemile Ranger District west of Missoula after two federal court defeats.
Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Crevice Lake

Download the Missoulian article from March 20, 2022. (Download the PDF)

Download the Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Public Comments on the Roadless Rule (PDF)

A very limited 30 day comment period has opened. Please send comments before September 21, 2026.

Send comments to: https://www.regulations.gov
Include Docket number FS–2025–0001

Task Force consultant Mike Bader’s recent opinion has been published in 10 newspapers across the region in Montana and Idaho. Its explains how this plan and other connected actions will cause environmental devastation.

Download The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse (PDF)

A New Vision for Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force New Vision for Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Northern Rocky Mountains

The Status of the Grizzly Bear and Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Grizzly Bear and Biological Diversity in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Analysis of Road Density and Grizzly Bears in the Ninemile Demographic Connectivity Area west of Missoula

Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Road Density and Grizzly Bear in the Ninemile Demographic Monitoring Area

Lolo National Forest Connecting Three Grizzly Recovery Areas Map

Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Map Connecting Three Grizzly Recovery Areas

Grizzly Bear Denning Habitat and Demographic Connectivity in Northern Idaho and Western Montana Report

Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Grizzly Bear Denning Habitat and Demographic Connectivity in Northern Idaho and Western Montana

Research that Task Force Funded is Published in Science Journal

Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force Grizzly Bear Denning Habitat and Demographic Connectivity in Northern Idaho and Western Montana Northwestern Naturalist