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Caribou–Targhee National Forest

Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

10% trees around it and 104 species recorded.

39Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestMountain forest

  • trees within 3 km10%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded104
  • Altitude1,885 m

The forest around

10% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 0%Shrubland 1%Grassland 84%Bare ground 0%Cropland 14%Trees 11%Shrubland 1%Grassland 47%Water 5%Bare ground 5%Cropland 31%Built-up 0%Trees 15%Shrubland 1%Grassland 49%Water 1%Bare ground 3%Cropland 31%Built-up 1%Trees 15%Shrubland 1%Grassland 59%Water 5%Bare ground 0%Cropland 19%Built-up 0%10%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km11%
  • 3–6 km15%
  • 6–10 km15%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees11%
  • Shrubland1%
  • Grassland47%
  • Water5%
  • Bare ground5%
  • Cropland31%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

104 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Yellow rabbitbrush
Yellow rabbitbrushChrysothamnus viscidiflorus4 recordsWallace Keck · Public domain
Antelope bitterbrush
Antelope bitterbrushPurshia tridentata4 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Western salsify
Western salsifyTragopogon dubius4 recordsStephen Lea · CC BY-SA 3.0
Drooping Brome
Drooping BromeBromus tectorum3 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Bluebunch wheatgrass
Bluebunch wheatgrassPseudoroegneria spicata3 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Cushion buckwheat
Cushion buckwheatEriogonum ovalifolium3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pennycress
PennycressThlaspi arvense3 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Linanthus pungens
Linanthus pungensLinanthus pungens3 recordsDcrjsr · CC BY 3.0
Rocky Mountain Juniper
Rocky Mountain JuniperJuniperus scopulorum2 recordsUSDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Herman, D.E. et al. 1996. North Dakota tree handbook. USDA NRC · Public domain
Intermediate wheatgrass
Intermediate wheatgrassThinopyrum intermedium2 recordsDehaan · CC BY-SA 3.0 us
Sandberg bluegrass
Sandberg bluegrassPoa secunda2 recordsMatt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Common water-crowfoot
Common water-crowfootRanunculus aquatilis2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

39out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 10%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 104Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,885 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-4°-15°72 mm
  2. Feb-3°-14°68 mm
  3. Mar2°-9°65 mm
  4. Apr8°-4°65 mm
  5. May15°0°65 mm
  6. Jun21°5°47 mm
  7. Jul26°11°24 mm
  8. Aug25°9°32 mm
  9. Sep20°4°47 mm
  10. Oct10°-2°53 mm
  11. Nov2°-8°62 mm
  12. Dec-4°-14°77 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Caribou–Targhee National Forest.

National Forest in parts of Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah in the United States

Caribou–Targhee National Forest is a national forest in United States, 1,885 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 10% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

104 species have been recorded around it: 23 plants, 0 fungi, 81 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Yellow rabbitbrush, Antelope bitterbrush and Western salsify.

The best time to walk is in June and in September.

Along the Trail to Table Mountain (11717525885)
Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Caribou–Targhee National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    In our other atlases

    Around Caribou–Targhee National Forest.

    The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

    Peakyas19 mountains within 25 km
    China Hat5.2 kmChina Cap5.7 kmLittle Crater9.9 kmChester Hill13 kmHenry Peak19 kmCamp Peak20 kmCrater Mountain23 kmBadger Knoll24 km
    Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
    Hole in the Rock0.5 km² · 7.3 kmBlackfoot Reservoir67 km² · 14 km

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    Buffalo Ski Trail at sunset Caribou-Targhee NF Cathey Hardin (11715377855)
    Intermountain Forest Service, USDA Region 4 Photography · Public domain

    Other forests nearby.

    Caribou–Targhee National Forest

    United States

    • 39Forestyas Score
    • 10%Trees
    • 76%Wild
    • 104Species

    Bridger–Teton National Forest

    United States · 98 km

    • 76Forestyas Score
    • 61%Trees
    • 96%Wild
    • 344Species

    See the guide

    Wasatch–Cache National Forest

    United States · 132 km

    • 66Forestyas Score
    • 64%Trees
    • 75%Wild
    • 180Species

    See the guide

    Shoshone National Forest

    United States · 243 km

    • 64Forestyas Score
    • 39%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 180Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q1036127) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species557 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
    See these recordsgbif.org
    Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

    The family

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