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	Bitterroot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is found on sagebrush plains to the lower mountains, in western and south central Montana.
		The bitterroot was selected to be the Montana State Flower on February 27, 1895.
		Three major geographic features, the Bitterroot Mountains (running north-south and forming the divide between Idaho and Montana), the Bitterroot Valley, and the Bitterroot River (also running north-south, terminating in the Clark Fork River in the city of Missoula), owe the origins of their names to this flower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bitterroot (273 words)

	Fly Fishing the Bitterroot River in Southwest Montana : Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroot River in Montana is a medium sized stream that begins with the confluence of the East Fork Bitterroot and the West Fork Bitterroot near Connor, MT. It flows through the scenic Bitterroot Valley on its way to the confluence with the Clark Fork near Missoula, MT.
		The Sapphire mountains rise to the east while the Bitterroot mountains are found to the west.
		The banks of the Bitterroot River are a mix of woodland and grass, as the valley is a prime agricultural area in Montana.
	www.bigskyfishing.com /River-Fishing/SW-MT-Rivers/bitterroot-river/bitterroot_river_overview.htm (317 words)

	About the Bitterroot Valley -Roaring Lion Inn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroot Valley (sometimes spelled Bitterroot or Bitter Root) is a vast valley extending from Missoula Montana all the way south to the Idaho border.
		The valley is framed by the Bitterroot Mountains on its west and the Sapphire Mountains on the east.
		The valley was carved by the Bitterroot River which courses through its center, providing a great richness of fishing (steelhead trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, brook trout, bull trout, whitefish, and others), and much opportunity for hunting, sightseeing, nature observation, and wildlife.
	www.roaringlioninn.com /bitterroot-valley.htm (740 words)

	Idaho Geography - NETSTATE
		Rocky Mountains: The Rocky Mountains area is the state's largest area and extends from the Idaho Panhandle (That's the narrow strip of Idaho that runs between Washington and Montana and borders Canada.) south and along the Wyoming border.
		This triangular area of mountains stretches from Lake Pend Orielle in the north to Coeur d'Alene Lake in the south.
		South of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains are the Clearwater Mountains and south of the Clearwater Mountains are the Salmon River Mountains.
	www.netstate.com /states/geography/id_geography.htm (1126 words)

	Grizzly Bear Recovery in the Bitterroot Ecosystem
		Historically, the grizzly bear was a widespread inhabitant of the Bitterroot Mountains in central Idaho and western Montana.
		The Bitterroot Ecosystem is one of the largest contiguous blocks of federal land remaining in the lower 48 United States.
		As such, the Bitterroot Ecosystem offers excellent potential to recover a healthy population of grizzly bears and to boost the long-term survival and recovery prospects for this species in the contiguous United States.
	www.fws.gov /pacific/news/grizzly/glizzlyQandA.htm (3049 words)

	visit br (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroot Valley is the "Banana Belt" of Montana.
		The Bitterroot Valley, is 25 miles wide and 96 miles long, for a total of 2,383 square miles covering the area from Florence to Sula and is framed between the Bitterroot Mountains on the west and the Sapphire Mountains on the East.
		Lake Como with its Alpine surrounding mountains and beautiful sand beaches, and Painted Rocks Lake with its overhanging rocks so named by the Indians because of their natural colors are easily accessible by major roads in the valley.
	www.oldwestcandy.com /visitbr.htm (618 words)

	Introduction
		The 1.6 million acre Bitterroot National Forest, in west central Montana and east central Idaho, is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains.
		Elevation ranges from 3,200 feet at the north end of the Bitterroot Valley to Trapper Peak at 10,157 feet in the mountains on the south.
		The Bitterroot Forest is home to many species of wildlife, from mule deer, whitetail deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, fl bear, mountain lions, and moose, to many varieties of smaller animals and birds.
	www.fs.fed.us /r1/bitterroot/forest/overview_index.htm (444 words)

	Bitterroot Reintroduction
		Secretary of Interior Gale Norton proclaimed in June that she is “fully committed to the recovery of the grizzly bear in the lower 48 states.” Yet she announced on the same day that the scheduled reintroduction of grizzly bears into the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana would be abandoned.
		Recognizing that the Bitterroot ecosystem offers the best place for recovery of the grizzly bear, the Fish and Wildlife Service decided in November 2000 to release five bears in the remote Bitterroot Mountains every year for five years beginning in 2002.
		The Bitterroot ecosystem offers prime habitat for grizzly bear recovery as it is the largest expanse of continuous federal lands in the lower 48.
	www.csupomona.edu /~gssilliman/bitterroot_reintroduction.htm (556 words)

	State Highway 28 - Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lemhi Mountains (01/31/2002) I liked what the sun was doing with the light in the mountains and the clouds; so I held the digital camera outside the window and clicked.
		People of the Bitterroot (04/09/2002) This remote section of State Route 28 is one of the longest continually inhabited areas in north American, with traces of the People of the Bitterroot going back 8000 years.
		Bitterroot Mountains (04/09/2002) These peaks of the Bitterroot Mountains were the main reason that Lewis and Clark had dropped so far south in seeking their cross continental route.
	protophoto.com /subject.html?subject_id=280 (615 words)

	bitterroot -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Owing to the inaccessibility of the mountains from the east, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1805 were forced to travel northward more than...
		On the west and southwest is Idaho, with the Bitterroot Range and the Continental Divide forming part of the boundary.
		The Colorado Front, Sangre de Cristo, Laramie, Wind River, and Wasatch ranges and the Uinta, Bighorn, and Bitterroot mountains are all parts of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9080333?tocId=9080333 (650 words)

	Bitterroot Mountains continue to challenge modern adventurers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana and northern Idaho were unexpected obstacles.
		Trails across the Bitterroots tend to follow the mountain ridges, not the valleys.
		From this mountain I could observe high rugged mountains in every direction as far as I could see." Wendover Ridge is also where the horse carrying Clark's field desk fell down the hill, smashing the desk and adding to Clark's misery.
	www.post-gazette.com /travel/20030831expedition0831p4.asp (2125 words)

	Bitterroot Valley of Montana
		The route follows the Bitterroot River, the dominant natural feature within the valley, and connects the cities and towns of the valley much as the river did when those settlements were first established in the late 1800's.
		Surrounding the valley, much like the claw of a crab, is the Bitterroot National Forest which carpets the two mountain ranges on either side of the valley and connects and closes in upon the narrowing valley at its south end.
		The upper Bitterroot Valley, from Hamilton to Lost Trail Pass at the Idaho border, grows more narrow as you travel south as the mountain slopes and forest close in on the highway to form the apex of the valley.
	www.gonorthwest.com /Montana/northwest/Bitterroot_Valley.htm (668 words)

	CVO Menu - America's Volcanic Past - Montana
		The last mountain building event, the Laramide orogeny, (about 70-40 million years ago) the last of the three episodes, is responsible for raising the Rocky Mountains.
		The mountains contain sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock, the latter of which -- pink granites and streaky gneisses and schists -- are exposed across large areas.
		The Bitterroots are Montana's longest mountain range and include three groups of mountains: the Bitterroots, the Beaverheads, and the Centennials.
	vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /LivingWith/VolcanicPast/Places/volcanic_past_montana.html (3542 words)

	Darby, Montana. - Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroot (51 pictures) Darby is in the Bitterroot Valley (west of the Bitterroot Mountains.)
		Streets of Darby (06/03/2002) Darby, Montana is in the upper of the Bitterroot Valley.
		Bitterroot Mountains (06/03/2002) The Bitterroot Mountains as seen from US 93 outside Darby.
	protophoto.com /subject.html?subject_id=187 (344 words)

	Bitterroot by James Lee Burke - read excerpt
		After her death and burial on her family's ranch, he returned to Montana again and again, spending the entire summer and holiday season there, floating the Bitterroot River or cross-country skiing and climbing in the Bitterroot Mountains with pitons and ice ax.
		Supposedly the word "Missoula" is from the Salish Indian language and means "the meeting of the rivers." The area is so named because it is there that both the Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers flow into the Clark Fork of the Columbia.
		In Bitterroot, with its rugged and vivid setting, its intricate plot, and a set of remarkable, unforgettable characters, and crafted with the lyrical prose and the elegiac tone that have inspired many critics to compare him to William Faulkner, James Lee Burke has written a thriller destined to surpass the success of his previous novels.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/bitterroot.htm (862 words)

	Bitterroot National Forest - Welcome!
		Half of the forest is dedicated to the largest expanse of continuous pristine wilderness in the lower 48 states -- the Selway Bitterroot, Frank Church River of No Return, and the Anaconda Pintler.
		Come enjoy the magnificent mountains, the serenity of wilderness, the miracle of spring flowers, majestic big game, and the sounds of birds here in our land of multiple uses.
		Beginning February 2006 all Cabin and Lookout reservations for the Bitterroot National Forest will be made by contacting the National Recreation Reservation Service at www.ReserveUSA.com or toll free at 1-877-444-6777.
	www.fs.fed.us /r1/bitterroot (217 words)

	USFWS says NO GRIZZLY BEARS IN BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS
		Grizzly bears are not "ghost animals" that go unseen - in the Bitterroot Mountains or anyplace else for 50 years, the federal government's lead grizzly bear biologist said Tuesday.
		At issue is the federal government's proposal to reintroduce a so-called "experimental" population of grizzlies in the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana and central Idaho.
		Thus the contention by leaders of eight environmental groups that Servheen is hiding evidence of grizzlies in the Bitterroots to protect his reintroduction plan.
	www.bitterroot.com /grizzly/bears21k.htm (878 words)

	National Park Service - Lewis and Clark (Historical Background)
		Their village, numbering 33 lodges and populated by about 400 people, was situated at the base of the Bitterroot Mountains in a beautiful cove that later became known as Ross's Hole.
		Early in the afternoon, the expedition moved northward down along the Bitterroot River, viewing the spectacular scenery of the Bitterroot Valley, dominated on the west by the saw-toothed Bitterroot Range.
		He explained that not far to the north the Bitterroot joined a stream nearly as large as itself that rose in the mountains near the Missouri and passed over a broad prairie to the latter stream at a point about 30 miles downstream, or north, of the Gates of the Rocky Mountains.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/lewisandclark/intro44.htm (1158 words)

	Bitterroot Mountains - Wild America - Lewis and Clark - Sierra Club
		The Bitterroots, which define much of the border between Idaho and Montana, provides a natural wildlife corridor for elk, wolves, bear and deer.
		In fact, the biggest salvage sale in U.S. history was proposed in the Bitterroots; it would have produced 190 million board feet of timber from 46,000 acres of burned forest.
		The Sierra Club and other groups are watching the Forest Service closely to ensure that loggin in the Bitterroot is done with the least damage possible.
	www.sierraclub.org /lewisandclark/wildamerica/bitterroot.asp (304 words)

	Rocky Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The mountains in the SE corner of the map are the Absaroka Range.
		The mountains to the west of the deeply shadowed part of the Yellowstone valley are the Gallatins.
		Glacier National Park is on the Canadian border, in the mountains to the east of this valley, and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation is on the plains farther east.
	vathena.arc.nasa.gov /curric/land/landform/rockymtn.html (958 words)

	Bitterroot River Retreat \| Private Fishing Accomodations & Relaxing Getaway
		Bitterroot River Retreat is located 2 miles south of historic Darby,
		A private handcrafted 4 bedroom home on a serene setting of 9 acres nestled between the Sapphire and Bitterroot mountains.
		The riverfront property offers private access to the Bitterroot river for your fly fishing enjoyment and sits approximately 1 mile from the confluence of the east and west forks of the
	www.bitterrootriverretreat.com (176 words)

	Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge - Refuge Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroot Mountain range is the backbone of the valley.
		Pierre Pichette, another Salish elder, said the mountains were red because of a red plant that used to grow near the tops.
		Charlo remained in the Bitterroot for 20 more years until he and his band were escorted from the valley by General Carrington in October 1891.
	www.r6.fws.gov /leemetcalf/cultural2.html (479 words)

	New wolves in Bitterroot Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		New wolves roam the east slope of the Bitterroots:
		This would be the third wolf pack in the Lolo Creek/Kelly Creek/Bitterroot Mountain area of the Idaho/Montana border.
		The wolves are suspects in the recent killing of a 500-pound steer in the area.
	www.forwolves.org /ralph/basscrwolf.htm (381 words)

	Gray Granite
		edrock in the Bitterroot Mountains is mostly granite.
		The earth's crust of western Montana sank under the weight of the displaced slabs, so the heights of the mountains are only a fraction of the thickness of the displaced slabs.
		That raised the Bitterroot Mountains and exposed the pale gray granite.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2007 (619 words)

	11/17/00 -- Grizzly Bears to Roam Bitterroot Mountains Once Again
		During the first several decades of the reintroduction effort, the chance that a grizzly bear will injure a human is "exceedingly small," due to the low density of bears in the area, officials said.
		Grizzlies were eliminated from the Bitterroots by the 1940s after a century of intensive persecution.
		Of all remaining unoccupied grizzly bear habitat in the lower 48 states, the Bitterroot Mountains wilderness area has the best potential for grizzly bear recovery, federal biologists say.
	forests.org /archive/america/gbtoroam.htm (1275 words)

	Summer Undergraduate Diversity Program - NSF EPSCoR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Bitterroots Mountains are asymmetric, with an average slope of 18?
		The minimum average area eroded in the North face of one mountain is 1,066,650 m2.
		In order to make a comparison of the Bitterroot Mountains drainage area and the valley spacing, a study of the Transverse Ranges of Central California was made.
	www.umt.edu /epscor/diversity/2004_students_rafael.htm (346 words)

	Trail results for
		The mileage is low enough to make it suitable for a day hike, yet several mountain lakes and a wide-open...
		Perhaps because the higher portions of the Bitterroot Mountains north of Lolo Pass aren’t visible from a major highway, they remain relatively unknown.
		Late-summer hiking in high mountain lake country with cutthroat trout fishing and a chance to see mountain goats, moose, elk, deer, and an occasional fl bear.
	www.trails.com /AdvancedFind.asp?GeoSearch=1&lat=47.3937&Lon=-115.34&Distance=50&ZipCode=59830 (804 words)

	Missoulian - Western Montana's News Online
		Grizzly bears should be restored to the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana and central Idaho, managed by a first-of-its-kind committee of citizens and scientists, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided Thursday.
		Unique to the Bitterroot reintroduction is the recommendation that a committee of citizens - not government officials - be given responsibility for management of the bears.
		The final EIS included the promise to designate an "exclusion zone" on the floor of the Bitterroot Valley, in response to comments from residents who said they did not want grizzlies wandering into their back yards.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2000/03/10/export41196.prt (1018 words)

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