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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 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 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 ...
The Sawtooth Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in central Idaho, United States, reaching a maximum elevation of 10,751 feet (3,277 m) at the summit of Thompson Peak. It encompasses an area of 678 square miles (1,756 km 2 ) spanning parts of Custer , Boise , Blaine , and Elmore counties, and is bordered to the east by the Sawtooth ...
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.
About 30 miles (48 km) long, the valley is in Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) in the Sawtooth National Forest.It is surrounded by the Sawtooth Mountains to the west, White Cloud Mountains to the east, Salmon River Mountains to the north, and Boulder and Smoky Mountains to the south.
B. Backdrop Peak; Baker Peak (Idaho) Bald Mountain (Idaho) Bear Peak (Blaine County, Idaho) Bible Back Mountain (Idaho) Big Peak (Camas County, Idaho)
In August 1972, 59 years after national park legislation was first introduced, the Sawtooth National Recreation Area was established after years of work from U.S. Sen. Frank Church.