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As part of the Wild America campaign, we've targeted wild places that need protection. Choose a place below and learn how you can flex your activist muscle and do something to help.

Washington

	Kettle Range The Kettle Range is a wildlife-rich oasis among the farms and field of eastern Washington.
	Dark Divide Roadless Area The Dark Divide Roadless Area, containing one of the largest blocks of old-growth forest in southern Washington, is at risk from logging.
	Columbia River Estuary The Columbia River Estuary marks the meeting of river and ocean, a welcome site to Lewis and Clark.

Oregon

	Tillamook State Forest The Tillamook State Forest represents the only intact watershed on Oregon's north coast, supporting salmon runs and providing water for local communities.
	Mt Hood and the Columbia Gorge Mt Hood and its foothills in the Columbia Gorge look much the same as they did to Lewis and Clark 200 years ago. These icons provide Oregonians with clean water, unparalleled recreation, and a link to our wild heritage.
	Columbia River Estuary The Columbia River Estuary marks the meeting of river and ocean, a welcome site to Lewis and Clark.

Idaho

	Boulder Mountains - White Cloud Peaks Gold and molybdenum mines threaten to degrade this prime habitat for cougars, bighorn sheep, trout and steelhead.
	Lemhi Mountains These mountains and the four great surrounding valleys were considered home by ancient peoples and have seen more than 10,000 years of continuous inhabitation, including by Sacagawea's orginal family.
	Owyhee Canyonlands The Owyhee Canyonlands, high desert cut by deep river channels, remain unprotected.

Montana

	Gallatin Range To the north of Yellowstone National Park lies the Gallatin Range, which provides invaluable habitat for grizzly bear, lynx, wolverine, elk and moose.
	Pryor Mountains The Pryors are being destroyed by rampant motorized recreation; off-road vehicles should be banned, and the area needs permanent protection as wilderness.
	Rocky Mountain Front The Rocky Mountain Front is part of the largest, most intact block of wild country in the lower 48 - but it is threatened by oil and gas development.

Wyoming

	Little Bighorn Located in northeastern Wyoming in the Bighorn Mountains, Little Bighorn provides crucial elk calving habitat and cold-water wild trout fishery habitat.
	Beartooth Plateau The Beartooth Plateau, located in the country's first national forest, the Shoshone National Forest in northern Wyoming, is threatened by oil and gas development.
	Mount Leidy Highlands This terrain south of Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks is home to the threatened grizzly bear.
	Red Desert More than 12,000 natural gas wells may be drilled in southern Wyoming's Red Desert over the next 10 years.

North Dakota

	Sheyenne National Grasslands Tucked in the southeast corner of North Dakota, these grasslands are damaged by overgrazing, off-road vehicles and exotic species.
	Little Missouri Badlands In the western portion of North Dakota lie the Little Missouri Badlands, where rugged buttes, canyons and rolling hills are targeted for oil and gas drilling.
	Garrison Reach of the Missouri Urban sprawl is the greatest threat to this relatively natural section of the Missouri River.

South Dakota

	Missouri Wild and Scenic River Only two stretches of the Missouri River remain wild. The National Park Service must purchase land and acquire easements in Nebraska and South Dakota to protect it.
	Buffalo Gap National Grassland A railroad expansion plan is among the threats to this scenic area of southwest South Dakota.

Nebraska

	Niobrara River The Niobrara River is a fast-flowing river of the high plains in Nebraska whose "wild and scenic" stretches are threatened.
	Sand Hills Region The Sand Hills of western Nebraska contain the largest contiguous tract of mid and tallgrass prairie left in the United States.
	Missouri Wild and Scenic River Only two stretches of the Missouri River remain wild. The National Park Service must purchase land and acquire easements in Nebraska and South Dakota to protect it.

Iowa

Loess Hills The Loess Hills are a unique landform of wind blown silt (loess) up to 200 feet high. It is one of a few places in the world where loess accumulates to such heights.

For more information about the Sierra Club's Lewis and Clark campaign or to find out how you can help, contact lewisandclark@sierraclub.org.