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Covering 2.2 million acres of rugged mountains north and east of Boise, Boise National Forest provides the pri…

Stretching across 2.6 million acres of southeastern Idaho and into small portions of Wyoming and Utah, Caribou…

Emigrants of the California Trail describe the rocks here in vivid detail as "a city of tall spires,” “steeple…

Craters of the Moon is a vast ocean of lava flows with scattered islands of cinder cones and sagebrush. We inv…

The largest contiguous wilderness in the lower 48 states. Contains the Main Salmon River, Middle Fork of the S…

During the Pliocene, this place looked quite different. Lush wetlands, forests, and grasslands provided excell…

Combining the historic Coeur d'Alene, Kaniksu, and St. Joe National Forests into a single administrative unit,…

The Pearl Harbor attack intensified existing hostility towards Japanese Americans. As wartime hysteria mounted…

Since time immemorial, the valleys, prairies, mountains, and plateaus of the inland northwest have been home t…

Encompassing 4 million acres of north-central Idaho's most wild terrain, the Nez Perce-Clearwater National For…

Located in central-western Idaho, Payette National Forest encompasses 2.3 million acres of dramatic river cany…

At 4.2 million acres, the Salmon-Challis National Forest is one of the largest national forests in the lower 4…

Spanning 2.1 million acres of central Idaho and a small portion of northern Utah, the Sawtooth National Forest…

The third largest wilderness in the lower 48, spanning the Idaho-Montana border. Features deep river canyons, …