How Many Acres Of Wilderness In Idaho?
Posted by Mike and Erica Carr on
Wilderness Areas in Idaho
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
With the addition of The Owyhee River Wilderness areas, Idaho is 4th in the nation in total wilderness acres. Idaho boasts 4,792,969 acres of wilderness. Add in a whopping 9,000,000 acres of inventoried Roadless areas that have the potential to become wilderness and Idaho would be second only to Alaska. From the two biggest wilderness areas, the Selway-Bitterroot and the Frank Church River Of No Return Wilderness Areas to the tiny micro wilderness areas in the Owyhees like the Pole Creek Top,…
3520 Views, 0 Comments