East Fork of the San Juan River Landscape Corridor

The San Juan Mountains' two largest wilderness areas -- Weminuche and South San Juans -- are the heart of the Wild San Juans reserve design. Three critical links connect these two wilderness areas:

1) East Fork Valley -- a major elk migration route and location of confirmed lynx tracks in early 1990s.

2) Treasure Mountain -- the high-elevation spruce-fir forest corridor between the wilderness areas that lynx might likely use; The San Juan River's East Fork Valley -- once the proposed site of a massive, 10,000 person per day ski resort in the heart of the Southern Rockies wildest country.