They have potential for timber production. The native vegetation is mainly Douglas fir and ponderosa pine trees with an understory of pinegrass, mallow ninebark, Engelmann aster, white spiraea, common snowberry, heartleaf arnica, other grasses, forbs, and shrubs. Beartooth soils are not extensive in west-central and southwestern Montana. Beartooth is a landmark name. Soil interpretation record MT1128.
Beartooth soils have a frigid temperature regime and an ustic moisture regime.