Salmo-Priest Additions

Salmo-Priest Adjacent is composed of three inventoried roadless areas—Salmo-Priest Addition A and B (Three-Mile), and Salmo-Priest Addition C (Leola Peak) and other roadless lands adjacent to the existing wilderness area. The Salmo Priest Wilderness Area and adjacent roadless lands attract hunters, hikers, equestrians, and campers because of the area’s abundant trails, old-growth cedar forests, high alpine ridges and peaks, and exceptional solitude. The area is also home to several rare wildlife species including grizzly bear and mountain caribou, an added draw to visitors of this isolated corner of Washington.

Because it connects to existing protected areas north in British Columbia, Salmo Priest Adjacent is important for many species of wildlife, including mountain caribou, that require large wild places to survive. There is habitat for the threatened grizzly bear, threatened Canada lynx, endangered mountain caribou, and endangered gray wolf both throughout the Salmo Priest area and neighboring Canadian wild lands. In Sullivan Creek—the water source for the nearby town of Metaline Falls—the threatened bull trout and “sensitive” westslope cutthroat trout live and spawn.