Wildlife
The Stephen Mather Wilderness provides a protected area for a wide variety of wildlife, including elk, mule deer, gray wolf, mountain goat, moose, and bighorn sheep. Species of wolverine, bat, duck, hawk, owl, frog, loon, chipmunk, coyote, squirrel, bear, falcon, eagle are also fairly common.
There are approximately twenty-eight species and subspecies of fish found in the wilderness, including the threatened bull trout and anadromous runs of coastal cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden, steelhead trout, and five species of salmon found in the Skagit, Nooksack, and Chilliwack drainages.
Threatened or endangered wildlife species in the area include bull trout and northern spotted owl.
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