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Our Winter-Spring newsletter reports on how Objections to the Flathead Forest Plan show who's fighting for fish and wildlife and who's selling them out to make it appear consensus has been reached on forest management!

Conservation groups wanting better protection for fish and wildlife in the Northern Rockies filed Objections to the revised Flathead Forest Plan and Amendments to four other Forest Plans in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

UPDATE: Swan View Coalition testified on behalf of 15 other groups and organizations at a July 7 Grizzly Bear Habitat Workshop in Missoula, MT, and submitted more comments in January 2018.

If you commented in 2015 or 2016 on the draft Flathead Forest Plan in favor of more Wilderness and a non-motorized Krause Basin, you have until February 12 to express your disappointment with the final Forest Plan and ask for changes!

The Flathead National Forest dumped 3,000 pages of documents on the public over the holidays and Fish and Wildlife piled more on - all intended to strip Endangered Species Act protections from Glacier- and Yellowstone-area grizzly bears!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy Solstice, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Swan View Coalition has issued its critical review of the Biological Assessment of the final revised Flathead Forest Plan, along with Friends of the Wild Swan.

Keith Hammer has issued three Supplements to his "Roads to Ruin" and "TMRD" reports, providing documents showing logging roads must have their stream-bearing culverts removed, then the roads must be removed from the Flathead Forest Road System and revegetated before they can be omitted from calculations of Total Motorized Route Density.

Our Holiday Newsletter looks at recognizing and protecting nature's gifts, rather than simply imposing our will on the world!

Swan View Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan and WildEarth Guardians put the Flathead National Forest on notice they will file suit over logging road impacts to bull trout.

Our Fall 2017 newsletter uses illustrations and science to debunk the "logging prevents wildfire" myth, describing how we can protect our homes while letting fire play its essential role in forest ecosystems!

Your quick email is needed today to keep Flathead hiking trails from being turned into freeways for mountain bikes!

Our Summer 2017 newsletter takes a quick look at delay in release of the Revised Flathead Forest Plan and two Swan Valley timber sales, in light of persistent efforts by the Flathead to weaken protections for threatened bull trout and grizzly bear, noting local communities are getting fed up with the roads, weeds and ATVs that follow logging!

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act has been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate! Urge your Senators and Representatives to support NREPA today!

Your quick email is needed TODAY to stop logging and the building of another 45 miles of roads and trails in threatened wildlife habitat near Whitefish, MT!

Our Winter-Spring 2017 newsletter announces two reports on the bike-bear death of Brad Treat, examines the role irresponsible commerce plays in the devaluation of the public good, reports on how public-private partnerships help privatize public lands, and urges people to resist the hype in order to re-create a sustainable relationship to the earth!

Your email is needed today to stop the takeover of National Forest lands in the Swan Valley by Lake County!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy New Year and issues a last call for 2016 support!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy Solstice, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year!

Please tell the Flathead National Forest to not approve high-speed mountain bike trails in the area where one of its employees was killed in July when he literally ran into a grizzly bear while "riding his mountain bike at high speed!"

Please DONATE NOW to help us secure quiet habitats for fish, wildlife and people!

Our Holiday Newsletter renews our pledge to fight for public wildlands and restoration, reports on the growing national support for it, and notes the pitfalls of local collaboration!

Thanks to your comments and grassroots networking, support is growing for our Citizen reVision of the Flathead Forest Plan! See our Fall 2016 newsletter!

Let the Flathead National Forest know TODAY that you support Alternative C's new wilderness recommendations and prohibiting mechanized vehicles in those 507,000 acres of roadless lands!

Your short emails and letters are needed NOW to protect wildlands and wildlife habitat in the revised Flathead Forest Plan!

Here are links to SVC's comments on the Draft Revised Flathead Forest Plan, proposed grizzly bear amendments to four other NCDE Forest Plans, and their Draft Environmental Impact Statements (DEISs).

Want to protect all wildlands and restore damaged habitats on the Flathead National Forest? We make it simple in our Summer 2016 newsletter!

The Forest Service is holding open houses in Kalispell and Missoula, June 20 and 22, to unveil its Draft EISs for a revised Flathead Forest Plan and revised grizzly bear management on four other Forests. Fish and Wildlife Service is holding a hearing in Missoula July 7 to take public comment on grizzly bear de-listing in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem that includes those five Forests!

Our Winter-Spring 2016 newsletter releases our new report "Roads to Ruin," describes how our investigations have already helped secure more road decommissioning for bull trout in the Swan Valley, and describes how the report will help us all wrestle with the revised Flathead Forest Plan and Grizzly Bear De-Listing DEISs due out May 27!

Your 5-minute letter is needed by February 11 to stop logging damage to a recovering burned area near the Great Bear Wilderness!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy New Year and says Thank You for your support of our work in 2015!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy Winter and Happy Holidays!

We need your help TODAY to stop Congress from attaching damaging logging riders to the must-pass spending bill!

Our Holidays 2015 newsletter celebrates spirited grass-roots conservation, faith, passion, and the support of our members!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the last call to have your donation matched by Cinnabar Foundation!

Only a few weeks left to have your support of our work doubled by Cinnabar Foundation!

Though burning wood to produce electricity releases more carbon into the atmosphere than burning coal, the European Union says it releases no carbon at all - a bald-face trick of accounting that may be followed by the U.S.'s EPA!

Researcher Diana Six faults logging as a misguided substitute for forest thinning by beetles!

Facts are getting in the way of attempts to blame fires on a lack of logging and to blame a lack of logging on environmental lawsuits!

Our Summer-Fall 2015 newsletter looks at the politics of logging and wildfires, and tracks the millions of dollars the Forest Service is paying its collaborative "partners!"

A celebration of Bruce May's life will be held Sunday, June 7, 2015 at the Whitefish Community Center, 121 Second Street, Whitefish, MT, from 3-6 pm!

Wilderness slide show by author Frederick Swanson May 13, 7-9 pm, at the Swan River Community Hall!

Our Spring 2015 newsletter provides a bit of background and 7 points we'd like you to consider making in your comments on the Proposed Flathead Forest Plan by May 15!

Please take a moment NOW and write an email objection to the Flathead National Forest, which wants to institutionalize and highlight ORV use of the wildlife-rich Krause Basin in its new draft Forest Plan!

The Washington Post has found Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) lied not once, but twice recently, greatly exaggerating how much federal logging in Montana is being held up by environmentalist lawsuits!

Our Winter 2015 newsletter outlines why we must intervene NOW to protect America's wilderness and conservation legacy - and how you can help!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy New Year from high atop the Swan Crest!

Swan View Coalition wishes you a Happy Solstice and Happy Holidays!

The Holidays 2014 issue of Swan View's News celebrates the life of Martin Litton, our 30th anniversary, and asks you to support our uncompromising defense of America's wildlands!

Grassroots environmental groups from across the country have issued a letter to the U.S. Senate demanding the removal of damaging public land give-away "riders" attached to the Defense Authorization Bill!

We are blessed with a beautiful Swan Range that is home to rare fish and wildlife. Thank you for your help protecting them!

Your short email TODAY can help restore threatened bull trout via a better Recovery Plan!

Your quick email is needed TODAY to avert a snowmobile disaster being planned for Jewel Basin and the northern Swan Range!

Swan View Coalition's annual membership meeting will be held November 16th!

Our Fall 2014 edition of Swan View's News describes our recent accomplishments and continuing challenges in protecting wildlife, wilderness and people!

Your email message is needed today to keep F.H. Stoltze and DNRC from logging the Broken Leg and Crater Notch Trails that access the Jewel Basin Hiking Area!

UPDATE: Brandborg video and partial transcript now available!

Our recent hike along the Swan Crest commemorates Swan View Coalition's 30th anniversary and asks for your short email supporting Wilderness designation for the area!

Your email to the Flathead National Forest will help stop more of these logging road landslides from trashing fish and wildlife habitat!

Swan View Coalition and its president, Keith Hammer, were recently featured in the Flathead Beacon!

Our Summer 2014 edition of Swan View's News describes how new Forest and Travel planning rules dovetail with the Wilderness Act of 1964!

The Hungry Horse News has reported on our contention that areas to be logged on the Flathead National Forest should not be nearly doubled in trade for a bit of recommended wilderness!

Tell the Flathead Forest Supervisor you don't support the Whitefish Range Partnership Agreement's proposal to increase logging at the expense of threatened grizzly bear and lynx!

Swan View Coalition testified before a Federal Advisory Committee on May 29, 2014, detailing how "collaboration" on the Flathead National Forest is being used to marginalize the best available science and those who use it to protect fish and wildlife.

Our Winter-Spring 2014 edition of Swan View's News announces our 30th anniversary, the Wilderness Act's 50th, and invites you to join our Citizen reVision of the Flathead Forest Plan! It also describes how corruption at the Udall Foundation, a federal agency charged with managing collaboration and conflict resolution, has helped poison the Flathead Forest Plan "collaboration."

Please send a quick email today to help secure Wilderness in the Northern Swan Range!

Please take one minute, one click to support our proposal for Flathead Forest Plan revision - the Citizen reVision!

"Many foresters have long assumed that trees gradually lose their vigour as they mature, but a new analysis suggests that the larger a tree gets, the more kilos of carbon it puts on each year."

Montana just designated Lake Alva as "no wake," returning a bit of peace and quiet to nesting loons and quiet paddlers!

The Flathead National Forest has front-loaded its Forest Plan Revision process to reduce wildlife security while increasing motorized access and logging, playing favorites of folks willing to go along with it!

The Holidays 2013 issue of Swan View's News celebrates how simplifying and slowing down our lives can help save the planet!

Swan View Coalition wishes you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

You can help prevent the logging of ecologically important burned forests on Condon Mountain today! The woodpeckers are leading the way of renewed life in trees both live and dead!

Our Fall 2013 edition of Swan View's News looks at Flathead Forest Plan revision and how you can get involved to help conserve quiet habitats for fish, wildlife and people!

Your comments are needed by Aug 1 to help stop removal of Endangered Species Act protections from grizzly bears!

Please send a short email by August 1 to FWS insisting that full Endangered Species Act protection for grizzly bears not be replaced by a lame "conservation strategy!" Click here to read our assessment of the Conservation Strategy in our Summer 2013 newsletter!

Please support Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks' "no-wake" proposal for Lake Alva!

You can help support protection of wolverine under the Endangered Species Act in just 5 minutes, by May 6! Just follow these easy links to let U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know how you feel!

Our Winter-Spring 2013 edition of Swan View's News tells why wolverine are threatened by climate warming and what you can do to help!

The study finds that, on average, counties with national parks, wilderness, and other forms of protected public lands benefit with increased economic performance.

A Montana District Court has issued an order effectively ending this winter's wolverine trapping season, in anticipation of the imperiled wolverine being listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.

Flathead National Forest has withdrawn its Griffin Creek logging project in the face of appeals filed by Swan View Coalition and others.

Flathead National Forest has cancelled its plans to kill up to 270 of its best and biggest larch trees just to collect the seed!

Montana District Court Judge Jeffrey Sherlock has issued a temporary restraining order stopping Montana's wolverine trapping season!

Our Holidays 2012 edition of Swan View's News looks at our accomplishments and the path ahead - as the Flathead National Forest prepares to revise its Forest Plan!

Swan View Coalition extends a big THANK YOU to all who have supported our conservation work!

You can help support Whitefish Legacy Partners trails for hikers, horseback riders and mountain bikers today!

Please email Ranger Kehr today to thank him and make sure he removes all unneeded bike ramps from the Beardance and Crane Creek trails!

The Summer-Fall 2012 issue of Swan View's News examines how we are navigating collaboration, bullying and vandalism on the Flathead National Forest!

Swan View Coalition and others have sued Montana to stop trapping wolverine, a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.

Please take action today to stop motorcycle damage to the high alpine country of the Swan Crest!

Flathead National Forest fails to require non-lethal cone collection from its best larch trees. Your emails needed again!

Bicycling can and should provide a healthy and safe link between our urban areas and public lands if everyone minds their manners, obeys the law, and all agencies pursue meaningful public planning.

"The mountain bikers who want a more challenging experience, they've taken it to the next step and said, 'That's not enough for us. We want to construct things. We want to build jumps and bridges,' or whatever. That takes us outside the bounds of what we're allowed to do." Lolo National Forest

The Winter-Spring 2012 issue of Swan View's News describes the interplay of science, litigation, politics, and collaboration in the restoration of the Big Creek watershed on the Flathead National Forest.

The Big Creek watershed on the Flathead National Forest has been restored by removing 61 miles of the logging roads that helped put it on the "impaired water quality" list.

Comments submitted by Swan View Coalition and Friends of the Wild Swan lay out the scientific basis for restoring fish and wildlife habitat in the Swan Valley by removing roads, not trees.

Environmental groups are suing over a second logging project in the Spotted Bear area in as many months, claiming the South Fork Flathead River area above the 23,000 acre Hungry Horse Reservoir is a critical corridor for fish and wildlife.

The Max-Planck Institute, Oregon State University and others find large-scale production of bioenergy from forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral.