Roughly 60 miles south of Canada, the 88,000 acre Scotchman Peaks roadless area spans the Idaho-Montana border. Since the 1970s, when the U.S. Forest Service carried out extensive evaluations of lands suitable for wilderness, this rugged, scenic and biologically diverse portion of the Cabinet Mountains has been managed for its wilderness potential. The Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness believe now is the time to preserve the Scotchmans, one of the last, and largest, wild areas in our region.

You Can Help

In the 1970s, when the Forest Service evaluated public lands suitable for wilderness as part of the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation process, the Scotchman Peaks received more than 3,000 letters of support, more than any other place in the nation.

However, in the past three decades much has changed in the process of determining the best use of public lands and resources, including who gets to make those decisions.

If we don’t make our opinions heard then we risk losing this vital wilderness. This is more than a simple case of “use it or lose it” – we must let our government officials know that we do use it and don’t want to lose it!

Here’s how you can help:

  • Become a Friend of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness
    The Friends of Scotchman Peak Wilderness seeks to build a broad basis of support for wilderness designation for this special part of the West Cabinet Mountains here in northern Idaho and western Montana. We hope you will subscribe to the list of “Friends” who are interested in supporting our effort to build community consensus for wilderness. If you provide an email, or snail mail, address we will send you our bi-monthly newsletter and occasional news updates and action alerts. There are no membership fees and we don’t ask anyone to join an organization; we hope you will become a friend and supporter. You can subscribe now by clicking on the link below:

    Sign me up as a Friend of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness


  • Donate to the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness
    Our outreach and educational efforts are funded, primarily, through donations from individuals like yourself. You do NOT have to donate to be on our support list; however, if you would like to help, your donation is tax deductible. We are an all-volunteer organization with no salaries, and our “overhead” costs are bare bones and minimal. Contributions help to fund our education and outreach programs including the publication of our newsletter, booklets, informational inserts and other support material, displays and presentations. Donate today and help us widen our circle of Friends!

    Checks, however big or small, can be made out to the “Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness” and sent to:

    Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness
    PO Box 2061
    Sandpoint, ID 83864

    Or, for your convenience you can now donate directly online via PayPal (you don’t need to have a PayPal account to use this method, just a credit card!)



  • Volunteer
    The Friends will need help with various activities, some as simple as leading hikes into areas that you know well. If you can help, let us know.

  • Purchase items from us
    Get some really cool T-shirts, hoodies, calendars, books, and many more fun items by visiting our Store page – a portion of the proceeds from all items go directly into our donation fund.

  • Are you a webmaster or website owner?
    Put a link to us on your site using one (or more) of our lovely images. Click on any image to get the HTML code to copy & paste into your site. Or if you need a different size, let our webmaster know and she’ll create a custom image, just for your website!

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Reach us by mail at:

Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness
PO Box 2061
Sandpoint, ID 83864

Or click to send email to: Info@ScotchmanPeaks.org.