- Nez Perce National Forest
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Nez Perce National Forest IUCN Category VI (Managed Resource Protected Area)
Location Idaho County, Idaho, USA Nearest city Grangeville, Idaho Coordinates 45°27′00″N 115°55′03″W / 45.45°N 115.9175°WCoordinates: 45°27′00″N 115°55′03″W / 45.45°N 115.9175°W Area 2,224,091 acres (9,000.58 km2) Established 1908 Governing body U.S. Forest Service The Nez Perce National Forest is located in Idaho County in central western Idaho in the northwestern United States. The forest is bounded on the east by the state of Montana, on the north by the Palouse region, and on the south and west by the Clearwater National Forest. It has a total area of 2,224,091 acres (3,475.14 sq mi or 9,000.58 km2).[1] Forest headquarters are located in Grangeville, Idaho. There are local ranger district offices in Elk City, Grangeville, Kooskia, and White Bird.[2] It is the largest of the six National Forests that are contained entirely within a single county.
Crooked Creek in Gospel Hump Wilderness
Nez Perce was established on July 1, 1908 by the U.S. Forest Service with 1,946,340 acres (7,876.6 km2) from parts of Bitter Root National Forest and Weiser National Forest. On October 29, 1934 part of Selway National Forest was added.[3]
See also
- Nez Perce tribe
References
- ^ Table 6 - NFS Acreage by State, Congressional District and County - United States Forest Service - September 30, 2007
- ^ USFS Ranger Districts by State
- ^ Davis, Richard C. (September 29, 2005), National Forests of the United States, The Forest History Society, http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf
External links
Federal National ParksNational MonumentsNational ForestsBitterroot • Boise • Caribou-Targhee • Clearwater • Coeur d'Alene • Idaho Panhandle • Kaniksu • Kootenai • Nez Perce • Payette • Salmon-Challis • Sawtooth • St. Joe • Wallowa–Whitman • Wasatch-CacheNational Wildlife RefugesBear Lake • Camas • Deer Flat • Grays Lake • Kootenai • Minidoka • Oxford Slough Waterfowl Production AreaBig Jacks Creek • Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers • Craters of the Moon • Frank Church-River of No Return • Gospel Hump • Hells Canyon • Little Jacks Creek • North Fork Owyhee • Owyhee River • Pole Creek • Selway-Bitterroot • SawtoothState 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 •Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation (website)Categories:- IUCN Category VI
- Protected areas of Idaho County, Idaho
- National Forests of Idaho
- Regions of Idaho
- Protected areas established in 1908
- Idaho geography stubs
- Western United States protected area stubs
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