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The Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) is a national recreation area in central Idaho, United States that is managed as part of Sawtooth National Forest.The recreation area, established on August 22, 1972, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, and includes the Sawtooth, Hemingway–Boulders, and Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds wilderness areas.
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area is a rugged Idaho wilderness full of gorgeous views as well as wildlife, from tiny birds and massive moose to predators like bears, wolves and elusive wolverines.
The Sawtooth National Recreation Area is meant to be a “showcase” for the Forest Service. But increasingly, budget and staffing shortfalls leave much of the work to nonprofits.
Sawtooth National Forest is a National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve in a proclamation issued by President Theodore Roosevelt on May 29, 1905.
The Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve is a 1,416-square-mile (3,670 km 2) dark-sky preserve near the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, in the U.S. state of Idaho. It was designated on December 18, 2017, and is the first gold-tier dark sky preserve in the United States. [2] [3] [4] The area was designated by International Dark-Sky Association.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, which protected close to 1 million acres of mountain landscape. But the path to its creation had many ...
The Sawtooth Wilderness is managed by Sawtooth National Recreation Area, which is a division of Sawtooth National Forest. However, the wilderness encompasses land that was originally part of three National Forests : 150,071 acres (607.32 km 2 ) in Boise National Forest , 12,020 acres (48.6 km 2 ) in Challis National Forest , and 54,997 acres ...
A wildfire in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area prompted the evacuation of a popular campground and closure of the surrounding area, the U.S. Forest Service said.