Projects

Want to Collect Lichens with Us? Join the Selkirk Conservation Alliance as we collect arboreal lichens to support the endangered Selkirk Mountain Caribou recovery plan. Lichens collected will be dried…

Today, woodland caribou are found in only one location south of Canada, which are the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and northeastern Washington. Historically, within the lower 48 states, woodland…

From 2008 through 2015 the SCA supported several aerial monitoring flights over critical habitat areas which are closed to motorized vehicles. Each flight documented motorized tracks and activity within the…

The SCA and many of its member activists closely monitor timber sales within our Advocacy Area (see map under About Us tab). Over our nearly 30 years of advocacy history,…

The SCA was able to purchase 7 remote motion sensing cameras to use on various projects around the Selkirks through a Defenders of Wildlife grant. Cameras have or are being…

The Selkirk grizzly bear recovery zone is the only one of the six recovery zones. Grizzly bears originally ranged throughout most of western North America, but began disappearing from many…

From 2012 through 2014, the SCA worked with several eagle scout candidates and boy scout troops to install 16 bear proof food storage lockers in state and federal campgrounds around…

Traffic on the thoroughfare appears to have increased substantially since SCA first started keeping records back in 2009 (the USFS first studied recreational use in the region in 1996). The…

The Selkirk Mountains is home to two species of bear, the black bear and the grizzly bear. Black bear populations within the Selkirk Mountains have been reported as being relatively…