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In recent years, government officials in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, seeking to reclaim state management of their grizzly bear populations.
Adjoining the Bob Marshall to the north is the Great Bear Wilderness of 286,700 acres (1,160 km²), and to the south of the Bob Marshall is the Scapegoat Wilderness consisting of 239,936 acres (971 km²). An additional 1 million acres of roadless National Forest, private, and BLM land surrounds the designated wildernesses on all sides, for a ...
The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area is a congressionally-designated wilderness area located in Western Montana region of the United States.It is named after Bob Marshall (1901–1939), an early forester in the federal government, conservationist, and co-founder of The Wilderness Society. [1]
The Great Bear is located west of the Continental Divide which forms the eastern boundary. Great Northern Mountain (8,705 ft; 2,653 m) is the highest peak in the wilderness which is dominated by dozens of other mountains, all part of the Rocky Mountain Front , a huge overthrust fault that spans for 400 miles (640 km) through Canada and Montana.
In May, a grizzly bear at Grand Teton National Park sent a man to the hospital. Last year, wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly that broke into a home in Montana and killed a female hiker near ...
Grizzly bears roamed the North Cascades of Washington for thousands of years but have disappeared more recently.
The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is located in the northern Rocky Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana.Created by an act of Congress in 1983, this rugged alpine wilderness is divided into four separated parcels typified by complex mountain topography: Bear Trap Canyon unit, Spanish Peaks unit, Taylor-Hilgard unit, and Monument Mountains unit.
Animals found in the wilderness include bald eagles, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, threatened grizzly bears, lynx, and the gray wolf. Access to the wilderness is difficult but can be achieved via the Beartooth Highway US 212 from Red Lodge, Montana. There are also some forest access roads from the west off of US 89 south of Livingston, Montana.