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...most seasons, the Lolo is passable only from July to mid-September. At the Lolo Pass (elev.: 5,233 ft.), the Forest Service is building a log cabin and a warming hut that will serve as a Lewis and Clark interpretive center when finished later this year...
...snowdrifts, now and again postholing into a soft patch up to our thighs. By midday we crest the ridgeline, where we can start to make out the vast wild expanse that stretches away on all sides. To our north are 1.8 million acres of the Clearwater National Forest, to the south are 1.3 million acres of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area. The skies have cleared, and our cheeks redden from the sun bouncing off the snow. We traverse endless slopes, trying not to lose the trail...
Even though I love them, they are haunting in my dreams. When I see grizzlies in the northwestern Montana forest up here, in real life, it is more exhilarating than frightening. After the bear has seen or heard or scented me and galloped away in alarm, a feeling of awe remains. Almost always the bears run away. Sometimes if they feel that they don't have an escape route, they will bluff charge, veering away hard at the last yard, the last foot, the last inch. I don't know why they are so much more frightening in my dreams...
...grizzlies generally don't breed until their sixth year of life, and then the cubs--usually one or two, but occasionally three-- remain with their mother for nearly three years, learning the lay of the land--where to find food and security in all the various seasons. Sometimes the Forest Service closes gates to various logging roads to help give the bears security from humans, but the opening and closing of these roads is erratic, unpredictable to the bears and their maternal culture of instruction. In the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem--Lewis and Clark country--153 grizzlies are known...
...this spring for the sighting or the tracks of one mother bear and her offspring, on a mountain that is scheduled to be logged hard in the name of "fuels reduction," to theoretically reduce fire danger. I belong to a local pro-roadless group called the Yaak Valley Forest Council, which would like to see the fuels reduced on this mountain but in a way that would leave all the living green trees still standing. Last year many people saw the tracks of the bear and her cubs on this mountain. After much struggle, we have succeeded in negotiating...