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This photo shows part of the area proposed as a Trinity Alps expansion. This area of Humboldt and Trinity counties is clustered around the existing Trinity Alps Wilderness and includes parts of the New River and Tish Tang, Horse Linto, Red Cap, Butler, and Somes creek watersheds. These provide cold, clear water essential for the survival of summer and winter steelhead, spring and fall Chinook as well as coho salmon. The area is considered an important wildlife corridor between the existing wilderness and nearby wild lands. Photo by Susan Nolan and the California Wild Heritage Campaign. Photo provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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This view of the Trinity Alps shows the Trinity 2B South proposed Wilderness Area expansion. Photo provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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Photo by Susan Nolan and the California Wild Heritage Campaign. Photo provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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The proposed Trinity Alps Wilderness Area expansion has 52,906 acres of late seral forest. The Natural Diversity Database has identified 66 occurrences of rare species, the most occurrences of all California's proposed Wilderness Areas. Photo by Jim Rose but provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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The New River hosts almost 25% of California's remaining summer-run steelhead trout population and the greatest amount of occupied salmon habitat of all of California's proposed Wilderness Areas. Photo by Jim Rose. Photo provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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The Trinity Alps Proposed Wilderness Additions supply important connectivity between the Trinity Alps Wilderness and the Marble Mountain and Russian Wilderness Areas. This area provides 63 miles of salmon habitat having the greatest amount of occupied salmonoid habitat of all the proposed wilderness areas in California. The proposed additions are composed of rugged, heavily forested mid to low elevation country that would compliment the adjacent highlands of the Trinity Alps Wilderness if protected. Photo by Susan Nolan and the California Wild Heritage Campaign. Photo provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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This photo shows the edge of the proposed Trinity Alps Wilderness Area expansion with intact forest in the foreground at left and fragmented forests on the far slopes. A total of 131,947 acres of this PWA are located in designated Northwest Forest Plan Key Watersheds, which were designated for anadromous fish protection. Photo credit requested by the Klamath Forest Alliance and the California Wilderness Coalition. Photo provided by David Rose of the South Fork Trinity River Land Conservancy.


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This photo shows the mouth of Horse Linto Creek looking upstream into the Trinity Alps Wilderness. Additional portions of this creek's watershed would be protected if the proposed Trinity Alps Wilderness Area expansion were to be adopted. This creek and others in the PWA provide critical cold water summer rearing of juvenile salmonids and vital cold water to the major rivers, such as the Trinity which is shown at the bottom of the photo. Photo by Pat Higgins.