 A variety of wildlife can be found in the Gearhart Mountain Wilderness.These include deer, coyote, elk, black bear, golden-mantled ground squirrel, and mountain lion, and a wide variety of birds, such as several kinds of woodpecker, mountain chickadees, finches, canada and steller's jays, dark-eyed juncos, common ravens, brown creepers, golden-crowned kinglets, red-breasted nuthatches, cassin's vireos, yellow-rumped and hermit warblers, pacific-slope and dusky flycatchers, sooty grouse, clark's nutcrackers, and red-tailed hawks.Bull trout inhabit headwater stream reaches with rainbow and brook trout inhabiting the lower reaches of some of the area streams; Blue Lake is stocked yearly with rainbow trout.