WILDLANDS

The Wild Clearwater Country

The northern half of central Idaho's Big Wild, the Wild Clearwater Country, contains many unprotected roadless areas and wild rivers, and provides crucial habitat for countless rare plant and animal species. The entirety of the Clearwater River drainage is found here. Important headwater streams that give home to chinook salmon and steelhead, bull trout and west-slope cutthroat trout, harlequin ducks and tailed frogs are here.

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Friends of the Clearwater strives to protect these areas.

According to recent research by World Wildlife Fund, the Clearwater River drainage and vicinity is the most important for forest carnivores in the entire U.S. portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon Rockies region.

Learn more about Visionary Legislation that could protect the entire Wild Northern Rockies.