northeast washington
wildlife viewing & recreation guide
Welcome to Washington's Wild Side!
Whether you are here
to hike, camp, hunt, fish
or simply view wildlife
from the comfort of
your vehicle, northeast
Washington offers fantastic wildlife-watching
experiences. Combine
that with welcoming
American marten © David Moskowitz
mountain towns, local
lodging, restaurants and
breweries, historic sites and interpretive centers, and scenic drives
and hikes, and northeast Washington is one of the top wildlife tourism destinations in the Northwest!
The variety and size of unspoiled places in the Kettle River Range and
Selkirk Mountains are home to a long list of wild creatures. Between
the Cascades and Rocky Mountains, the many mountains, lakes, rivers, and forests provide perfect habitat for a rich array of plant and
animal life. It is often easier to see more wildlife than people while on
a short mountain trail walk or scenic drive in northeast Washington.
In northeast Washington you will discover the range of animals that
thrived when explorers Lewis & Clark and David Thompson traveled
the Pacific Northwest more than two hundred years ago. Here, you
could be lucky enough to see Canada lynx, grizzly bears, wolverines,
wolves, native trout, bighorn sheep, elk, moose, mule deer, and the
only remaining mountain caribou in the lower 48 states.
Birders flock to the untouched wetlands and subalpine parklands to
see some of the state's only breeding populations of loons, as well as
bald eagles and ospreys, and one of the greatest diversities of owls
and woodpeckers in North America. The many springs, streams,
and creeks that flow out of the Kettle Range nourish people, plants,
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