Sawtooth National Forest
Sawtooth National Forest is a National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres in the U.S. states of Idaho and Utah. It was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve in a proclamation issued by President Theodore Roosevelt on May 29, 1905. It contains the Albion, Black Pine, Boise, Boulder, Pioneer, Raft River, Smoky, Soldier, Sublett, and White Cloud mountain ranges, as well as Hyndman Peak, the ninth-highest point in Idaho at 12,009 feet above sea level.
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Sawtooth National Forest is a National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres in the U.S. states of Idaho and Utah. It was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve in a proclamation issued by President Theodore Roosevelt on May 29, 1905. The forest is managed as four units: the SNRA and the Fairfield, Ketchum, and Minidoka Ranger Districts. It contains the Albion, Black Pine, Boise, Boulder, Pioneer, Raft River, Smoky, Soldier, Sublett, and White Cloud mountain ranges, as well as Hyndman Peak, the ninth-highest point in Idaho at 12,009 feet above sea level. It offers facilities for recreation, with four ski areas, whitewater and flatwater boating, hunting, 81 campgrounds, and over 1,000 mi of trails and roads for hiking, mountain biking, and all-terrain vehicle use. Plants and animals found only in the forest and adjacent lands include Christ’s Indian paintbrush, Davis’ springparsley, the South Hills crossbill, and the Wood River sculpin. In 1960, Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho introduced legislation to study the feasibility of a national park in the area. On October 12, 1937, the Saw tooth Forest Service established the Primitive Area in the SawTooth Mountains, which would encompass the existing SawtoOTH Wilderness Area. In October 1963, a bill was introduced to create a Sawtooths National Wilderness Park, but the bill died due to a more preservation-oriented stance by the Idaho congressional delegation.
The first European descendants migrating from the eastern United States arrived in the region around the 1820s; they were mainly explorers, trappers, and prospectors, and they founded many of the current towns around what later became the forest. The Forest Reserve Act of 1891 gave the President the authority to establish forest reserves in the Department of the Interior. On November 6, 1906, President Roosevelt announced the addition of 1,392,640 acres to the sawtooth forest Reserve, which then also constituted much of the present-day Salmon-Challis and Boise National Forests. The Fairfield Ranger District was established in 1906 and merged with the Shake Creek Ranger District in 1972 to form thepresent-day Fairfield District. The names of the forest reserves were changed to national forests on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1953, the Minidokas National Forest was created and added to Sawto Tooth National Forest. The Sawtoooth National Recreation Area was established on August 22, 1972 and includes the Saw Tooth, Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds, and Hemingway–Boulders wilderness areas. It has been approximately been approximately 30 miles in length and 8 to 15 mi wide since its creation in the 1930s. The area that is now Sawtoot National Forest has been occupied by people as early as 8000 BC and by the Shoshone tribe after 1700 AD.
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