Mule Deer of the Bitterroot Range

[Bo Zarts]

Along the Montana/Idaho Panhandle Boundary - July 2025
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[Botany]

1. Thank you!

FYI some kind of pine in the background, some native short grass prairie grasses, and
I can’t I.D. the white flowers. Good chance that area is covered with snow now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm-1516

[Bo Zarts]

2. Western white pine are in the area, but the ubiquitous tree species at this elevation is Subalpine fir.

That particular pine is probably a Western white pine. I'd need a grass expert to identify the grasses of the area. The "bowl" in the drainage beyond and below the female deer has grasses so lush that it looks like a golf course all summer.

FYI, here are some of our trees in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest:

Idaho Panhandle Evergreens
Douglas-fir (Red Fir)
Englemann Spruce
Grand fir (White Fir)
Lodgepole Pine
Mountain Hemlock
Pacific Yew
Ponderosa Pine (Yellow Pine)
Subalpine fir
Western Hemlock
Western Larch (Tamarack)
Western Red Cedar
Western White Pine
Whitebark Pine


Idaho Panhandle Broadleafs
Black Cottonwood
Quaking Aspen
Western Paper Birch

[Botany]

3. The white flower is Western Yarrow and the grass is a bunch grass of a native fescue.

N/t

[Bo Zarts]

5. Impressionist simulation of what it might look like up there now ..

[surfered]

4. Beautiful, in velvet

[Old Crank]

6. Very nice.

The only animals I have gotten to see around here are wild boar. And only at distance. Which is fine for me.