With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama added wilderness protection Friday to more than a quarter-million acres in Idaho. He signed the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak ...

ATLANTA, Idaho -- The search for a man who disappeared while hiking in the Sawtooth Wilderness area continued Tuesday. Jimmie Yorgensen, the president of Idaho Mountain Search and Rescue, described ...

The Jon Francis Foundation, a Minnesota-based nonprofit that coordinates searches for people missing in Western wilderness areas, is leading private efforts to find Treasure Valley resident Jack ...

STANLEY • Happy anniversary, wilderness! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act by taking a hike in a wilderness area, naturally. An easy place to start is the Sawtooth Wilderness near ...

On a recent backpacking trip to Sawtooth Lake, a friend and I encountered dozens of other hikers, several other backpackers and a couple of trail runners. When we got to Sawtooth Lake right around ...

Fast Fact: Sawtooth Wilderness, according to the EPA, has some of the cleanest air in the lower 48 states. The Sawtooth Wilderness is a world of jagged peaks—hundreds of them, with 50 measuring over ...

BOISE, Idaho — A wildfire near Grandjean continues to threaten an iconic lodge in the Sawtooth Wilderness. Several structures around Sawtooth Lodge have burned, though people who love going there do ...

STANLEY, Idaho • It’s hard to be in Idaho long without seeing a photograph of Sawtooth Lake reflecting stately Mount Regan. “You can see it on calendars, postcards. So everybody wants to see it in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama signed legislation Aug. 7 introduced by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, creating new wilderness in Central Idaho’s Boulder-White Cloud Mountains. Simpson’s ...

BOISE, Idaho – About 20 backcountry campers in the Sawtooth Wilderness had to be evacuated because of a central Idaho wildfire that several hundred firefighters are trying to snuff out before it gets ...

Nothing quite beats the feeling of waking up to a calm, quiet, high-mountain lake, like this scene at dawn on a trip in 2021 to Sawtooth Lake in the Sawtooth Wilderness in the Sawtooth National ...

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