Lynx research important for ‘big picture’ decisions

An incredible amount of work has gone into studying the threatened Canada lynx, a rare and snow-dependent cat whose southernmost habitat stretches into Montana in an area called the Southwestern Crown of the Continent, a vast region that forms the southern boundary of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and includes areas and communities within the Blackfoot, Clearwater and Swan River valleys.

Monitoring efforts formerly launched 22 years ago, and more recently a collaborative team of researchers supported and funded by the U...