Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Rangelands
Volume
40
Issue
6
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
11-15-2018
First Page
173
Last Page
176
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
The Northern Range (a.k.a., Northern Yellowstone Range) is 380,000 acres of rangeland and forest in northwestern Wyoming and south-central Montana within and adjacent to Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Sixty percent of the Northern Range is within YNP and 40% is north of YNP on federal, state, and private lands in Montana (Fig. 1). Inside YNP, about 60% of the Northern Range is rangeland and 40% is forest. Outside YNP, the Northern Range in Montana is mostly foothill grassland and sagebrush steppe, while the bottomlands are dominated by irrigated pastures and hayfields. The Northern Range outside YNP is a working landscape comprised of multiple use federal and state lands, ranches, rural residences and vacation homes, small unincorporated towns, and tourist facilities. Federal and state lands and ranches provide open spaces that buffer YNP from more developed lands. Wildlife migrating north from YNP depends on these working lands for winter and summer habitat.
Recommended Citation
Jeffrey C. Mosley, Joseph Fidel, Harold E. Hunter, Peter O. Husby, Charles E. Kay, John G. Mundinger, Ryan M. Yonk, An Ecological Assessment of the Northern Yellowstone Range: Introduction to the Special Issue, Rangelands, 40(6), 2018, 173-176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2018.10.003.
