List of animals of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
This article is an incomplete list of the species of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish found in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in central Idaho.[1] Gray wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho in the 1990s while grizzly bears have been extirpated from the area, and plans to reintroduce them have been abandoned. The Sawtooth National Recreation Area supports habitat for Canada lynx and wolverines, but there have been no recent sightings.
Birds[edit]
Mammals[edit]
- American badger
- American beaver
- American marten
- American pika
- Bighorn sheep
- Black bear
- Bobcat
- Brown rat
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Canadian lynx
- Columbian ground squirrel
- Common raccoon
- Cougar
- Coyote
- Deer mouse
- Elk
- Fisher
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Gray wolf (reintroduced)
- Grizzly bear (extirpated)
- House mouse
- Long-tailed weasel
- Marten
- Masked shrew
- Meadow vole
- Mink
- Moose
- Mountain goat
- Mule deer
- Muskrat
- Northern pocket gopher
- Northern river otter
- Porcupine
- Pronghorn
- Red fox
- Red squirrel
- Short-tailed weasel
- Snowshoe hare
- Southern red-backed vole
- Striped skunk
- Water shrew
- Western jumping mouse
- White-tailed jackrabbit
- Wolverine
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- Yellow-pine chipmunk
Amphibians[edit]
- Pacific tree frog
- Long-toed salamander
- Columbia spotted frog
- Rocky Mountain tailed frog
- Western toad
Reptiles[edit]
- Bullsnake
- Common garter snake
- Rubber boa
- Sagebrush lizard
- Western skink
- Western terrestrial garter snake
Fish[edit]
- Brook trout (not native)
- Bull trout
- Chinook salmon
- Lake trout
- Longnose sucker
- Mountain whitefish
- Mottled sculpin
- Rainbow trout
- Redside shiner
- Sockeye salmon
- Westslope cutthroat trout
- Wood River sculpin
See also[edit]
- List of birds of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area
- Sawtooth National Forest
- Sawtooth National Recreation Area
- Wolves at Our Door - 1997 documentary film about the Sawtooth Pack of wolves
References[edit]
- ^ Alden, Peter and John Grassy. "National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States". New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
External links[edit]
- U.S. Forest Service - Sawtooth National Recreation Area