page_title: Sky Lakes Wilderness
section_title: Wildlife
hierarchical_section_title: Sky Lakes Wilderness / Wildlife
caption_attribution_description: Ursus americanusFrançais&#160;: ours noir
context_page_description: The Sky Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Rogue River–Siskiyou and Fremont–Winema national forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon in the United States. It comprises 116,300 acres, of which 75,695 acres are in the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest and 40,605 acres are in the Fremont–Winema National Forest. It was established in 1984 under the Wilderness Act of 1964.
context_section_description: Elk herds spend much of the summer and early fall in the northern third of the Sky Lakes Wilderness. The entire wilderness supports roving populations pine martens and fishers, black bears, cougars, coyotes, as well as pikas, golden-mantled ground squirrels, goshawks and various other species of wildlife. During October and November, migrating birds pass over in the hundreds of thousands, often stopping at the high lakes. Ospreys, eagles, and other large hawks can occasionally be seen around the Sky Lakes. Uncommon animals in the area include the yellow-bellied marmot, the fisher, and the pine marten.
  Game fish are stocked annually in the Sky Lakes by the State of Oregon. These include brook trout, rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, and kokanee. Cutthroat trout are only stocked in Big Heavenly Twin and Isherwood lakes, and kokanee are only stocked at Fourmile Lake.
caption: American black bear
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