Are there grizzly bears in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness?

Are there grizzly bears in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness?

The Selway Bitterroot Wilderness area is within the Bitterroot grizzly bear recovery area. The great bears have been absent from the area for many decades but were once abundant.

How big is the Selway Wilderness?

1.3 million acres
The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (SBW) is 1.3 million acres in size – one of the largest wildernesses in the contiguous United States. The SBW straddles the Bitterroot mountain range along the Idaho and Montana border.

Where is the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness?

The Selway–Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States. At 1.3 million acres (5,300 km²), it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States (14th overall, but third-largest outside Alaska).

How many grizzly bears are in the Bitterroot Mountains?

2,000 grizzly bears
Both of the areas that Mattson refers to are, together, home to nearly 2,000 grizzly bears.

Are there grizzlies in the Frank Church Wilderness?

The Bitterroot Ecosystem along the Montana-Idaho border has chunks of the Bitterroot, Selway, and Frank Church-River of No Return wilderness areas totaling more than 6 million acres. But it has no resident grizzly bears.

Where is the Bob Marshall Wilderness?

Northwestern Montana
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Located in Northwestern Montana on both sides of the Continental Divide, this large complex includes three Wilderness areas: the Great Bear, the Scapegoat, and the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Where is Sawtooth wilderness?

35 miles south of Borrego Springs, CA. Although State Route 2 winds along the northern side of the wilderness, there is no legal access due to private lands along the boundary. The only access is from the Pepperwood Height Trail at the end of the McCain Valley.

Where are grizzly bears in Montana?

Northwest Montana has the largest concentration of grizzlies in the Lower 48 states, with more than 1,000 bears across Glacier National Park and nearby expanses of forested wilderness, an area known as the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

Are there grizzly bears in the Pioneer Mountains of Montana?

FWP has received recent reports of grizzly bears observations around Butte, near the Pioneer Mountains northwest of Dillon and 15 miles west of Townsend south of Helena, areas that fall between the NCDE and Yellowstone ecosystems.

Are there grizzly bears in the Wind Rivers?

Black Bears are common throughout the Wind River Range. Although a Grizzly encounter is possible, it is unlikely. Grizzly habitat is typically to the north and east of the Pinedale area. Black Bears are not as aggressive as Grizzly Bears and most often want to avoid you.

What is the Bitterroot ecosystem?

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan designated Idaho’s Bitterroot Ecosystem, which includes parts of the Gospel Hump Wilderness, the Selway-Bitterroot, and Frank Church-River of No Return areas, a key recovery zone they were particularly hoping would be repopulated with grizzlies.

What is the largest wilderness area in Montana?

Bob Marshall Wilderness