OUR MISSION AREA

The Great Burn ecosystem of the Northern Rockies spans roughly 1.9 million acres of public wildlands in the northern Bitterroot Mountains along the Idaho-Montana border. Containing no less than 27 Inventoried Roadless Areas, our mission area’s rugged and wild habitat boasts incredible biodiversity and serves as a haven for vulnerable and threatened species such as wolverine, white bark pine and mountain goats.

Wildlife

The area contains high-quality habitat for many large wildlife species that require tracts of continuous wildlands to survive. It is also a haven to threatened and endangered species, as well as home to three native mountain goat herds.

Landscape

Our mission area lies at the hub of a complex of undeveloped wildlands in the northern Rocky Mountains, providing a key wildlife corridor between the Selkirks and the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

What makes it special?

Nick Littman has worked on our trails crew and our weeds crew, and he’s also led student trips. Here, he explains why he kept coming back to the Great Burn every summer.