Gooseberry Mesa National Recreation Trail in Utah is a splendid place to mountain bike but it possesses only a fraction of the high wildlife values involving large mammals that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has. The kind of intensive recreation pressure that happens there and in states like Colorado%2C California%2C Oregon and Washington would overwhelm the quality of wildness in Greater Yellowstone%E2%80%94wildness vital to the persistence of species in the ecosystem. Photo courtesy Bureau of Land Management.
Gooseberry Mesa National Recreation Trail in Utah is a splendid place to mountain bike but it possesses only a fraction of the high wildlife values involving large mammals that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has. The kind of intensive recreation pressure that happens there and in states like Colorado%2C California%2C Oregon and Washington would overwhelm the quality of wildness in Greater Yellowstone%E2%80%94wildness vital to the persistence of species in the ecosystem. Photo courtesy Bureau of Land Management.