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CITIZEN TASK FORCE

Healthy Forests. Clean Water. Wild Places

Forest Service Moves to Trash Roadless Area Conservation

The Forest Service recently published a proposal to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, opening up more than 50 million acres of the wildest National Forests to industrial exploitation including new roads, massive logging, mining and more.
Flathead Lolo Bitterroot Citizen Task Force

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 Horseman 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