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Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness
Beaver drop. The beaver drop was a 1948 Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers from Northwestern Idaho to the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho. The program involved moving 76 beavers by airplane and parachuting them down to the ground. The program was started to address complaints about property damage from residents.
The Fish and Game Department understood that beavers help with the wetlands, they helped reduce erosion, and they create habitat for birds and fish, so they decided to move the animals. The department trapped 76 beavers that were parachuted into the meadows of Central Idaho. [6] In 1949 the operation was deemed successful after officials ...
Boise River Wildlife Management Area. / 43.595227; -116.048664. Boise River Wildlife Management Area at 34,000 acres (140 km 2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Ada, Boise, and Elmore counties east of Boise. [1] The WMA is located on land around Lucky Peak Lake, a reservoir on formed by the Lucky Peak Dam on the Boise River.
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Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area. / 43.467409; -111.708942. Tex Creek Wildlife Management Area at 34,000 acres (140 km 2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Bonneville County east of Idaho Falls. [1] The WMA land was originally obtained to provide mitigation for the construction of the Ririe and Teton dams.
P.L. 90-542. The Lochsa River is in the northwestern United States, in the mountains of north central Idaho. It is one of two primary tributaries (with the Selway to the south) of the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River in the Clearwater National Forest. Lochsa is a Nez Perce word meaning rough water. [6][7] The Salish name is Ep Smɫí, "It ...
The annual water yield from the forest is estimated just below 2,300,000 acre-foot (2.8 × 10 9 m 3). [20]: I-9 Most of the forest's lakes are the result of glaciation and occur in the SNRA in the Sawtooth and White Cloud Mountains, but lakes can be found in most of the other mountain ranges of the forest. There are over 20 lakes in the ...