Mallard Larkins Roadless Area

** *Size: 260,000 acres*   The Mallard Larkins is biologically diverse, including low elevation disjunct coastal rainforest communities. In the high country, extensive lodgepole pine and mountain hemlock forests mingle with subalpine meadows, high mountain lakes, and craggy peaks. Impressive pockets of old growth western red cedar, western hemlock, and inland western white pine, some quite massive, remain in the lower elevations. The rare inland coastal rainforest habitat is well developed in Isabella Creek. Here, large old growth red alder, pacific yew, and many different ferns thrive among the arboreal giants. Thirty-eight mountain lakes are large enough to be named, with Heart Lake the largest at 35 acres.