Montana’s wildlife is varied and abundant. Lewis and Clark’s journals, the first written account of the region’s flora and fauna, are filled with wonder at the vast numbers of animals they had never encountered in the eastern states.
Today, Montana hosts some 107 species of mammals, 382 kinds of birds, 86 sorts of fish, 17 varieties each of reptiles and amphibians, and 315 different mollusks and crustaceans.