Federal Magistrate Rules for Environmentalist, Finds the Forest Service Failed to Protect Grizzly Bears From Expanded Cattle Grazing in Paradise Valley

Photo by Glenn Phillips.

Montana’s Paradise Valley is aptly named. Sitting between two towering mountain ranges, it cradles the mighty Yellowstone River that flows from its headwaters in America’s first national park and provides critical habitat to the native species still present 200 years after Lewis and Clark’s expedition, including grizzly bears, wolves, and wolverines.

Yet, the Forest Service decided to expand cattle grazing on six federal allotments on the valley’s east side...