Wyoming

Credit: Alex Diekmann

Looking across the American landscape, the Northern Rockies, which include Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, represent our wild lands. Virtually all the native plant and animal species that existed at the time of the Lewis & Clark Expedition are still here, as well as our working lands—farms, ranches and forests that represent the American West.

Vast expanses of public lands provide habitat for wildlife populations found nowhere else, including grizzly bear, gray wolf, woodland caribou, wolverine, and anadromous salmon and trout. Interconnecting these public lands are low-elevation private lands, mostly working farms and ranches. For generations, people have worked these lands, fished the streams, and raised their families to cherish their beautiful surroundings and rural way of life. The Trust for Public Land's goal in the Northern Rockies is to advance landscape-scale conservation while sustaining healthy communities and protecting the land where we love to live, work and play—like the 11,200-acre Devil's Canyon Ranch.