Alliance for the Wild Rockies, residents score win in fight for North Idaho’s old growth, grizzlies

By: Mike Garrity

Outlets: Idaho Capital Sun

Published: July 22, 2026

Words: 508

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the U.S. Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal …

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