White Clouds Wilderness

White Clouds Wilderness
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
Scoop Lake in the White Clouds Wilderness

Location	Custer County, Idaho, United States
Nearest city	Stanley, Idaho
Coordinates	44°03′18″N 114°36′25″W / 44.055°N 114.607°W / 44.055; -114.607Coordinates: 44°03′18″N 114°36′25″W / 44.055°N 114.607°W / 44.055; -114.607
Area	90,769 acres (36,733 ha)
Established	August 7, 2015
Governing body	U.S. Forest Service Bureau of Land Management

The White Clouds Wilderness is a 90,769-acre (367.33 km²) protected area in the western United States, located in Custer County, Idaho.^[1] The Sawtooth National Recreation Area, in the Sawtooth National Forest, manages the majority of the wilderness, with 450 acres (180 ha) managed by the Bureau of Land Management at the wilderness's eastern edge along the East Fork Salmon River. The wilderness encompasses part of the White Cloud Mountains and is north of the Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness and west of the Jim McClure–Jerry Peak Wilderness.

The area was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System in 2015 on August 7, with the passage of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act. Sponsored by second district representative Mike Simpson,^[2] a Republican from Blackfoot, it passed Congress without objection and was signed into law by President Barack Obama.^[1]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

1 2 Landers, Rich (August 4, 2015). "Idaho's Boulder White-Clouds Wilderness approved". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). Archived from the original on August 4, 2015.
↑ Connelly, Joel (August 4, 2015). "Idaho gets a new 275,000-acre Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness centered on an amazing peak". Seattle Post Intelligencer. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
↑ Simpson, Mike. "H.R. 1138". U.S. Congress. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 4, 2015.
↑ "Wilderness Area Proposals". U.S. Congress. February 23, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 4, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2015.
↑ Landers, Rich (August 7, 2015). "Obama signs Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness Bill". Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington). Archived from the original on August 7, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
↑ Ridler, Keith (August 7, 2015). "President signs legislation creating new Idaho wilderness". Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 8, 2015. Retrieved August 8, 2015.

Protected areas of Idaho

Federal

National Parks	Yellowstone

National Historic Sites & Historical Parks	Minidoka NHS Nez Perce NHP

National Monuments	Craters of the Moon Hagerman Fossil Beds

National Forests	Bitterroot Boise Caribou-Targhee Clearwater Coeur d'Alene Idaho Panhandle Kaniksu Kootenai Nez Perce Payette Salmon-Challis Sawtooth St. Joe Wallowa–Whitman Wasatch-Cache

National Grasslands	Curlew

National Recreation Areas	Hells Canyon Sawtooth

National Wildlife Refuges	Bear Lake Camas Deer Flat Grays Lake Kootenai Minidoka Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production Area

National Conservation Areas	Snake River Birds of Prey

Wilderness Areas	Big Jacks Creek Bruneau–Jarbidge Rivers Craters of the Moon Frank Church–River of No Return Gospel Hump Hells Canyon Hemingway–Boulders Jim McClure–Jerry Peak Little Jacks Creek North Fork Owyhee Owyhee River Pole Creek Sawtooth Selway-Bitterroot White Clouds

State

State Parks	Bear Lake Bruneau Dunes Castle Rocks City of Rocks Coeur d'Alene Parkway Dworshak Eagle Island Farragut Harriman Hells Gate Henrys Lake Heyburn Lake Cascade Lake Walcott Land of the Yankee Fork Lucky Peak Massacre Rocks McCroskey Old Mission Ponderosa Priest Lake Round Lake Thousand Springs Three Island Crossing Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes Winchester Lake

Wildlife Management Areas	Big Cottonwood Billingsley Creek Blackfoot River Boise River Boundary Creek Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh Carey Lake Cartier Slough Cecil D. Andrus C.J. Strike Coeur d'Alene River Craig Mountain Deer Parks Farragut Fort Boise Georgetown Summit Hagerman Market Lake McArthur Lake Montour Montpelier Mud Lake Niagara Springs Payette River Pend Oreille Portneuf Red River St. Maries Sand Creek Snow Peak Sterling Tex Creek

Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation (website)

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