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Salmon–Challis National Forest

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

96% trees around it and 5 species recorded.

71Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWildMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km96%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded5
  • Altitude2,247 m

The forest around

96% 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 96%Moss and lichen 1%Bare ground 3%Trees 96%Grassland 1%Moss and lichen 1%Bare ground 2%Trees 85%Grassland 11%Moss and lichen 4%Bare ground 1%Trees 75%Grassland 22%Moss and lichen 2%Bare ground 0%96%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km96%
  • 1–3 km96%
  • 3–6 km85%
  • 6–10 km75%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees96%
  • Grassland1%
  • Moss and lichen1%
  • Bare ground2%

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

5 species recorded.

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

Clark's Nutcracker
Clark's NutcrackerNucifraga columbiana2 recordsOregon Department of Fish & Wildlife · CC BY-SA 2.0
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Red-breasted NuthatchSitta canadensis2 recordsBecky Matsubara from El Sobrante, California · CC BY 2.0
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain ChickadeePoecile gambeli2 recordsPeter Wallack · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pileated Woodpecker
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatus2 recordsJudy Gallagher · CC BY 2.0
Dusky GrouseDendragapus obscurus2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

71out of 100

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

  • 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 5Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 2,247 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°-14°66 mm
  2. Feb-3°-14°61 mm
  3. Mar2°-9°67 mm
  4. Apr7°-5°62 mm
  5. May13°0°69 mm
  6. Jun18°4°69 mm
  7. Jul25°9°22 mm
  8. Aug25°8°28 mm
  9. Sep19°3°36 mm
  10. Oct9°-3°49 mm
  11. Nov2°-8°61 mm
  12. Dec-4°-14°72 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Salmon–Challis National Forest.

National forest in the US state of Idaho

Salmon–Challis National Forest is a national forest in United States, 2,247 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

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

The best time to walk is in September.

Salmon–Challis National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

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.

Salmon–Challis 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

    • 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
    • campsites within 10 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 Salmon–Challis 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.

    Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
    Copper Mountain6.9 kmDutchmans Hump9.3 kmEagles Nest11 kmGant Mountain15 kmDutchler Mountain18 kmBald Mountain21 kmBaldy21 kmBlackbird Mountain25 km

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

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    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q7405481) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species24 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

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

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