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Proposing a Salish Mountains Wildlife Corridor Vital Ground that bridges two Grizzly Bear Recovery core areas. |
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This hill top is in Flathead National Forest, your looking west at our barn, and only 1/2 mile onward away into Salish Mountains -Tally Lake area. That far ridge is a Grizzly Core area, Kootenai-Yaak, Idaho, British Columbia. This is a concentrated funneling area for Wildlife crossing to and from them. There pushed thru here by urban sprawl, more tourism, logging of the last thick canopy forested areas. Wild life have migrated this route here to the other side of valley for thousands on years. Glacier National Park and the North Fork is about 15 miles behind this spot. Were standing in the Glacier Grizzly Core area on this hill top looking into another. Look at the map! The Busy Highway 93, Farm to Market Road, Stillwater River all congregate together here.. and the Forests, Timber, National Forests and State Forests canopy also still funnel– Hourglass the wildlife at this vital Corridor and migration spot. |
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F.N.F. land is in background |
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Zane fire breaks around house 2010 |
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cleaning the land of brush |
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We ask National Forest Service, Region 1 and others for help. Lets make this wildlife corridor a wildlife friendly crossing and a safer migration route. We need the highway department, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, community, local industry, friends and neighbors cooperation. Living and working this land since 1960’s we can help give back. I hope to keep land set aside for many generations helping, working to help local wildlife. Most everyone agrees but its not their priority, we need to organize. |
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Behind us here big game cross highway 93 through the fields from national forests and state forested land, then cross this valley. Looking west over Stillwater River bottom, into Salish Mountains, Tally Lake, its Flathead National Forest land. |
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On site with my brush busting, stump jumping jack pine savages Zane, Zack and Taylor. |
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“the Barn” on US 93, is in the center of the deadly Highway crossing. Its also the narrowest point in the valley forested, in a direct line migration route between the two Grizzly Core Areas. You’ll see this Barn in many pictures for that reason. Sept. 2011, 5 deer killed here crossing that month. |
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Highway 93 and Salish Mountains looking West 2011 |
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Greater Glacier National Park Area Montana |
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Big game migrates or crisscrosses through our land to skirt the north end of busy Flathead Valley for access into the Salish Mountains or Whitefish Range. We are located between Glacier National Park and Flathead/ Kootenai/ Yaak forests just South of Alberta and British Columbia. Were several miles North of Whitefish Montana, the edge of the urban sprawl. We have some of the last private forested, unlogged, unfenced land in the area. The area is getting more inhabited with industry, subdivided lots, homes and agriculture, Urban sprawl is encroaching ever ware, subdividing run amuck. In 60 years we have seen an increased abundance of wildlife, endangered and non, living here and moving through. It’s been multiplying over the last 60 years. Not sure why but come to the conclusion the urban sprawl, industry and people has affected this, pushing the wildlife, concentrating it to here. We now have an abundance of wildlife bunching up when being pushed out of the natural wild canopy type interior forests west of the Whitefish Range. The Wildlife is trying to make its way to the distant Salish Mountains by moving down out of the high country to cross the valley? We surly need Biologists to study this; maybe Lance Craighead would be interested? What applies to Grizzly may also apply to the Whitetail, Wolverine, Martin, Lynx, and Wolves.
This web site is several pages of onsite pictures, pointing out a few of the problems, land, highway, river, forests with maps showing that it is gotten worse through the years. I believe if something isn't done now it may be too late, because of increasing building, subdivided, and developing. It will be to expensive 5 years from now, 15 years from now. Please look at this and see if there's something or someone that can help us help the wildlife and habitat, create an animal friendly corridor. We would like the National and State Forest agencies to partner with us. We also need to secure some more private lands before they are developed. Then restore the natural landscape a network of forest canopy interiors for movements of Grizzly to Pine Martin, Lynx to Cougar, Wolf to Wolverine and plan on an animal bridge to go over Highway 93, then through this half mile of upper Flathead Valley Stillwater River bottom. Soon while the land is still available! Is there any Wildlife Habitat, restoration help available? Lets help wildlife cross between the two Grizzly recovery areas on US 93. I need to contact persons for help from the Flathead National Forest, Bonneville Power Line Co., Montana Highway Dept. Stillwater State Forest and of course all Wildlife agency's State and Federal, pretending to care about wildlife and protecting forests, habitat and wildlife. Also like to invite some wealthy individual's to purchase some the network of lands to allow the stepping stone to cross this valley. Kerry R. Hubble logger919@earthlink.net 801-972-6066
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Vital Habitat, old wildlife migration route between the Glacier Park’s west slope and the Idaho panhandle, Yaak. Kootenai, Cabinet Mountain’s Grizzly Core Area. Vital local funneling spot around Swift Creek, Whitefish Lake, through Beaver Lakes into upper Flathead Stillwater River bottom. Regional funneling area south around the Kootenai Dam that backs water 100 north miles north into Canada and then there's this spot... then Flathead Valley suburbia another 100 miles south to Missoula |
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Stillwater River |
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Salish Mountain Wildlife Corridor |
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Purchasing fragmented habitats for imperiled species including the grizzly bear, lynx, wolverine, pine martin, fisher. The purchased habitat will help meet the recovery goals for this species by providing critical connectivity of landscapes and long-term protection. |
