Since 1987, Friends of the Clearwater has been protecting public wildlands through grassroots organizing, education, advocacy, and when necessary, litigation. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Moscow, Idaho.
Preserving, Protecting and Defending the Forests, Waterways and Wildlife in the wild heart of north-central Idaho.
The largest contiguous wild area in the Lower 48 States is central Idaho’s Big Wild, a 10-million acre expanse of wilderness and roadless areas that deserves recognition as one of the great American landscapes.
Old-growth cedars in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
Wild forests are at the meeting point of two great crises: biodiversity loss and climate disruption. As both habitat and large-scale carbon capture, protected forests are critical for our region and the world.
A Chinook salmon in Idaho. BLM Photo.
The headwaters of Idaho’s Clearwater River basin contain some of the best habitat for salmon and steelhead in North America.
Full recovery of these imperiled fish would meet obligations to Native treaties and expand the local economy.
A wolverine in Montana. Tyler Grudowski image.
As the Western US has developed, connecting wild areas with protected corridors has become more urgent.
We are developing the first National Wildlife Corridor in the Country, the Lochsa-Lolo Corridor, to connect the wildlands of the Greater Glacier region to the Big Wild.
