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This is before and after logging Bears soon drag off road kill, that explains all bones in the woods. lets give them a break. |
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Thick natural cover helps them feel secure. That then directs wildlife to safest area to cross valley. Encounters with Moose, Bear, Cougar, Wolves, Pine Martin, Wolverine increased while we have lived here. Logging of this last canopy on private, state and federal forests continual today . I will walk you thought this if you care to come and see ...its not rocket surgery Kerry 801-972-6066 |
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In winter migrating big game and protected species funnel from one national forest across the highway to another habitat, they have to skirt around the urban areas...when Spencer Lake area is logged expect them to come thru here also….give them a break. Leave them a Corridor. |
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Left big game once hid and traveled through here. the animals are moving across the valley and they need more shelter than this. Logged in 2007 this is a half mile to the south of our land, this is what's left there now. They now are in our crossing at the highway, I hope for a different approach. Now its home for game camera’s, salt blocks , tree stands and is inviting trespassing on to private land.
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Hungry Bears and Eagles cruise the road looking for the road kill. |
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Below is 960 acres of Flathead National Forest that is partially still untouched and natural as seen in these pictures. This is Vital Habitat for the movement of migrating wildlife, can we please let it alone because it aides the movement. It is shelter canopy, 100 year old, from the Great Fire of 1910 Lets help the wildlife across the upper Flathead Valley, they need this to connect or pass into the other Grizzly Bear Recovery areas like Cabinet-Yaak to Glacier |
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Purpose of Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor To save wildlife keep in mind its in inevitable they have to cross this valley and highway somewhere, but where? From Missoula to here 120 miles, Roaming Bear, Deer, Moose with trailing predators Cougar, Wolves , Grizzly are all skirting North ward around the Lake, Reservation and Flatheads suburbia. They leave the woods as they draw close to the residential, agriculture and industrial areas, trying to hold to the cover of the timber but at best it funnels them to cross the highway at night and fields in the open country. Hubble’s Crossing is the Flatheads basins northern funneling area. This is an animal bridge of sorts, caused because of the population that’s steamrolling northwest Montana for the last 60 years and 150 years of logging...still taking out the last of timber canopy. On Private, Federal and State. NOTE 2011 Beaver Lake bike trails cut wildlife count in that area by 75%. I did that count last fall. Animals need a sanctuary with cover protecting wildlife that cross at this vital natural funneling area . I'm Proposing that we purchase some additional lands on the Stillwater River, deadly highway 93 and the farm to market road area this would bring together the two national forests lands. 1/2 mile apart here at Hubbles. Then we could create an animal friendly Corridor. Restore the open areas to native habitat, trees, scrubs, brush across this valley ... The Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor. |
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Our woods run deep and to the pavement. grass 3 feet tall helps make this comfortable for wildlife to cross but deadly. |
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Flathead National Forest has been logged and thinning causing wildlife to move for cover. Spencer Lake is next. Spencer lake is 2 more miles south. ...no thought to wildlife displaced or habitat loss. Where will they go? don't know but it will be thru here when they to do it. Now New Beaver Lake bike trails cut wildlife count in that area by 75%. In 2011 |
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Our wind rows to help wildlife cross these fields to the Stillwater River and onward to the Flathead national forest and Kootenai-Cabinet-Yaak. We need to act now before land and this habitat availability is lost to development forever. |
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If you were wildlife which forest would you hide, bed, or cross the valley through? This or to the left? |
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The last 30 years we have done all we can to help, we now need others who can help. |
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Why Here ... Why Now ... Why its Vital This 960 acre island of Flathead National Forest needs to be saved for wildlife. This is a last sanctuary for escaping, migrating wildlife, an island among dense human population. Wildlife increasingly burdened by hunters and urban sprawl in the Beaver Lake to Bissell area is surrounded by subdivisions, state, private and federal logging operations and all affecting wildlife with parked out forests. Other bordering dangers are industry, agricultural fields, busy highway 93, new home construction, and new roads surrounding this. Its perfectly located to help wildlife. Located 6.5 miles northwest of whitefish, on highway 93. This 960 forested acres, is on the east side of the highway. Its bordering dads Corridor land, it straddle’s the highway as you can see on Google Earth. The big game have used this place to migrate for thousands of years, wildlife cross down off the timbered covered mountains, dash across the valley, dads fields and the highway, they swim Stillwater River, then back up into the vast wilds of the National Forests or Glacier park areas. Many never make it, as populations of people increases we observe the wildlife crossing this land also increasing, including Grizzly, Cougar and Wolves.
wildlife use this stepping stone to funnel across the valley |
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Flathead National Forest’s 960 Acres Bordering Us |
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Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor The migration between Glacier Park and the Cabinet Mountains |
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Migration route west & our barn. |
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Pictures below of the 960 FNFS acres we would like to leave alone and part of the... Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor |
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please rethink the logging |
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lived here since 1955 |
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Funnel effect is happen here because its some of the only timber canopy left, has brushy Beaver Lake Mountains, Less urban sprawl-activity, lack of fences, brushy Stillwater River bottom, and Salish Mountains start 1/2 mile dash from the Beaver Lake hills and the fact of narrow highway setbacks. see Google map. We own both sides of the Highway here |
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Leave them this Canopy Corridor |
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2011 ...There's two places you cant see natural wildlife activity in this area, Round Meadows ski trails and now Beaver Lake Bike Trails ...keep up the good work. |
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This is the start of the Dash to them Mountains |
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Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor |
