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Bitterroot National Forest

Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA · Public domain

90% trees around it and 67 species recorded.

81Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km90%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • species recorded67
  • Altitude1,743 m

The forest around

90% 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 90%Grassland 10%Trees 90%Grassland 9%Moss and lichen 0%Trees 67%Grassland 29%Moss and lichen 3%Trees 58%Grassland 37%Moss and lichen 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 3%90%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km90%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km67%
  • 6–10 km58%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland9%
  • Moss and lichen0%
  • Cropland0%

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

67 species recorded.

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

Mountain sedge
Mountain sedgeCarex scopulorum2 recordsMatt Lavin · CC BY-SA 2.0
Spiked ipomopsis
Spiked ipomopsisIpomopsis spicata2 recordsMason Brock ( Masebrock ) · Public domain
Rosy pussytoes
Rosy pussytoesAntennaria rosea2 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Boechera fecundaBoechera fecunda6 records
Geyer's twinpodPhysaria geyeri2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

81out of 100

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

  • 90%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 67Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,743 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-4°-13°60 mm
  2. Feb-4°-13°60 mm
  3. Mar0°-9°63 mm
  4. Apr6°-6°64 mm
  5. May12°-1°78 mm
  6. Jun17°3°79 mm
  7. Jul23°8°31 mm
  8. Aug23°7°36 mm
  9. Sep17°2°42 mm
  10. Oct8°-3°52 mm
  11. Nov1°-9°60 mm
  12. Dec-4°-13°66 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Bitterroot National Forest.

U.S. Forest across Montana and Idaho

Bitterroot National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,743 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 90% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

67 species have been recorded around it: 5 plants, 0 fungi, 61 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Mountain sedge, Spiked ipomopsis and Rosy pussytoes.

The best time to walk is in September.

Bitterroot Back Country Horsemen volunteers (6589390031)
Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA · 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.

Bitterroot 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

  • 7campsites within 10 kmBlack Bear Campground, Skalkaho Rye Dispersed Campground and 5 more
  • 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 Bitterroot 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.

Peakyas25 mountains within 25 km
Chaffin Butte12 kmBlacktail Point17 kmDutch Hill20 kmCold Spring Hill20 kmHarlan Point20 kmDon Mackey Point22 kmGoat Mountain22 kmDeer Mountain24 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Gird Point Lookout7,702 m · 4.9 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.

Bitterroot Back Country Horsemen volunteers (6354094469)
Forest Service Northern Region from Missoula, MT, USA · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Bitterroot National Forest

United States

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

Lolo National Forest

United States · 109 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 60Species

See the guide

Clearwater National Forest

United States · 98 km

  • 68Forestyas Score
  • 99%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 2Species

See the guide

Salmon–Challis National Forest

United States · 107 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3079113) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species501 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, Viewyas

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

The family

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