The Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho are one of the six grizzly bear recovery zones in the Lower 48, but they still don't have a breeding population. By Katie Hill. Updated Jan 18, ... Map by ...

Bitterroot Mountains, where Montana peaks soar, are closest range of Rocky Mountains to Portland. Updated: Aug. 04, 2014, 11:30 a.m. ... then crossed the Continental Divide into Idaho.

THE Bitterroot Mountains of northern Idaho aren’t terrifically hospitable, and getting the railroad through here back in the early 1900s — a necessary task ...

A grizzly bear in Idaho is moving south into the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness, ... Early 1900s trappers and hunters used to kill 25 to 40 grizzly bears per year in the Bitterroot Mountains.

An environmental group has petitioned the federal government to reintroduce grizzly bears to the Selway-Bitterroot mountains of Idaho and Montana, saying the region is critical to the bears&rsquo ...

For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Idaho and Montana. The ...

Volunteer grizzly bear advocates have produced several new research studies contending that the Bitterroot Mountains along the Montana-Idaho border have strong potential for recovering the ...

MAGRUDER RANGER STATION, Idaho - You smell the scene, don't you? It was a week or so ago, deep in these rain-soaked Bitterroot Mountains, but timeless as a morning campfire.