MLRA 43 - Northern Rocky Mountains Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming 282,650 km2 (109,130 mi2)

Potential Natural Vegetation:
This area supports conifer forests. Forests of western white pine, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, western redcedar, western larch, hemlock, Douglas-fir, subalpine fir, and spruce are common. Alpine grasses, forbs, and shrubs and scattered stands of subalpine fir, spruce, and whitebark pine grow on high mountains of Montana and Wyoming.

12/16/98