The Bob: Deep Deep Wilderness

My daughter Carolan works at times in Glacier National Park and at times in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex (known as "The Bob"). The entire Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex--3 adjacent defined wilderness areas, comprises 1,535,352 acres--which I calculate to be about 2,344 square miles of wilderness. If you add to this total Glacier National Park (about 1,544 square miles), you have wilderness or near wilderness of about 3,888 square miles. For some perspective, the state of Rhode Island covers about 1,214 square miles; Delaware is 2,490 square miles. In reality, the protected ecosystem, including a portion of Canada and state and national forest lands surrounding the Bob and Glacier, have about 16,000 square miles--what is known as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem." Compare this to the state of Massachusetts, which covers 10,555 square miles. So this wilderness or near wilderness covers more territory than Delaware, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts combined. This is a big, wild country! Don't get lost there, O Carolan!

Big Salmon Lake in "The Bob"--Wikipedia