Salmon-Selway-Bitterroot Ecosystem (Under Construction)

The Salmon-Selway-Bitterroot Ecosystem is largely protected in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (~1.3 million acres) and the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness (~2.4 million acres). These large core areas are inhabited by bighorn sheep, mountain goats, elk, moose, mule and white-tail deer, cougars, wolves, black bears, lynx, coyote and red fox.

Although the region is one of the few remaining areas in the contiguous States with suitable grizzly bear habitat, bears have been extirpated from the area for decades. Their return, and the long-term health of all wildlife here, will depend on connections to the Yellowstone and Crown of the Continent ecosystems through the High Divide.

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