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It’s not just habitats that are at stake. The serene Black Mountain Roadless Area reaches from Ten Mile Creek on the east slope of the Divide to the trails of Helena’s South Hills, offering great habitat for elk, mountain lion, bear, bobcat, and wolf. Signs of lynx have repeatedly been found in the Jericho Mountain area, along with those of moose, elk, mountain lion, black bear, and marten. Grizzly bear, wolverine, and elk also find ideal habitat in the wild enclave of the Anaconda Hill Conservation Area. Home to large elk herds, wolverine, lynx, and grizzly bear, the Nevada Mountain proposed Wilderness is a vast stretch of vital yet vulnerable wildlife habitat. Of course, at the heart of this campaign is the protection of the habitats and ecosystems that are home to some of our most ecologically important and iconic animals. The biggest gem on the Continental Divide, however, is the 50,000-acre Nevada Mountain proposed Wilderness. Almost 60,000 acres of lonesome basins, lofty ridges, and grizzly habitat adjoin the Scapegoat Wilderness.

The Helena National Forest overlooked this 5,500-acre wild landscape in its last roadless inventory in 1986. Safeguard the beautiful vistas and essential ecosystems.īetween the Helena Valley and Priest Pass is a unique tract of predominantly roadless national forest land characterized by striking granite outcrops.

Preserve wildlands for quiet recreation, horseback riding, and mountain biking and protect designated research areas and historic districts.

Protecting this area could eventually help grizzly bears migrate between the Crown of the Continent in northern Montana to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in southwestern Montana and central Idaho.

Protect habitat for animals such as lynx, grizzly bear, moose, mountain lion, and the increasingly rare wolverine along the corridor connecting Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks.

Ensure clean water for those who live downstream.

Build community-based, collaborative partnerships to create broad and diverse public support for several targeted wildlands along the Continental Divide, stretching from the headwaters of the Little Blackfoot in the south to the 5,000 year-old bison-hunting trail that traverses Alice Creek in the north.

Our work would help ensure the survival of some of North America’s most iconic animals and sustain the high quality of life in the Helena area. This area is extremely important to present and future wildlife migration, linking vital ecosystems and multiple wildland areas. We’ve recently sharpened our focus on the Continental Divide corridor that runs through the Helena National Forest and other special wildlands near Lincoln and Montana's capital.