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Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest

Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

19% trees around it and 44 species recorded.

48Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km19%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded44
  • Altitude2,044 m

The forest around

19% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 14%Grassland 83%Moss and lichen 2%Bare ground 1%Trees 20%Grassland 70%Moss and lichen 10%Trees 34%Grassland 57%Moss and lichen 5%Bare ground 4%Cropland 0%Trees 44%Grassland 47%Moss and lichen 3%Water 0%Bare ground 2%Cropland 3%Built-up 1%19%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km14%
  • 1–3 km20%
  • 3–6 km34%
  • 6–10 km44%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees20%
  • Grassland70%
  • Moss and lichen10%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

44 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Whitetop
WhitetopLepidium draba2 recordsJan Kops · Public domain
Silverleaf milk-vetchAstragalus argophyllus2 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

48out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 19%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 44Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,044 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-3°-15°30 mm
  2. Feb-2°-14°32 mm
  3. Mar4°-8°40 mm
  4. Apr8°-4°56 mm
  5. May15°1°70 mm
  6. Jun20°5°70 mm
  7. Jul27°10°31 mm
  8. Aug25°9°33 mm
  9. Sep19°4°40 mm
  10. Oct10°-3°39 mm
  11. Nov2°-8°35 mm
  12. Dec-3°-14°36 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest.

Forest in Montana, United States

Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,044 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 19% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

44 species have been recorded around it: 2 plants, 0 fungi, 41 birds and 1 mammals.

The best time to walk is in September.

2011 Field Trip to the Boulder Landscape Area on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (33502780778)
Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 3campsites within 10 kmBrownes Lake Campground
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas48 mountains within 25 km
Sheriff Mountain11 kmMaurice Mountain19 kmKing and Queen Hill20 kmBloody Dick Peak2,984 m · 20 kmSugarloaf Hill22 kmNeedle Rock23 kmArmstrong Mountain24 kmSaddleback Mountain24 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lake Agnes0.4 km² · 11 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

180711-fs-beaverhead-pjk-6382 (42923434195)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain
180711-fs-beaverhead-pjk-6452 (42923433895)
Forest Service Photography · Public domain
2011 Field Trip to the Boulder Landscape Area on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (40413554123)
Forest Service - Northern Region · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Beaverhead–Deerlodge National Forest

United States

  • 48Forestyas Score
  • 19%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 44Species

Bitterroot National Forest

United States · 115 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 90%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • 67Species

See the guide

Salmon–Challis National Forest

United States · 116 km

  • 71Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 5Species

See the guide

Lewis and Clark National Forest

United States · 216 km

  • 85Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 164Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079107) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species196 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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