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Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness

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56: 43: 608: 63: 193: 612: 401:, the former (and future) Idaho governor. The administration forwarded a central Idaho wilderness proposal to Congress later that year and Carter signed the final act on July 23, 1980. In January 1984, Congress honored Senator Church, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, by renaming the area The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness. Idaho Senator 489:. By the next year, three packs were identified and the first pups were observed. By 1998, there were at least 10 breeding pairs which was one component of the recovery project. In compliance with a rider attached to a Senate budget bill, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed wolves in Idaho and Montana from the endangered species list in 2011. 923: 389:
Church's environmental legislation culminated in 1980 with the passage of the Central Idaho Wilderness Act. The act created the River of No Return Wilderness by combining the Idaho Primitive Area, the Salmon River Breaks Primitive Area, and a portion of the Magruder Corridor. The Act also added 125
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Wolves once ranged throughout nearly all of Idaho but by 1930 became locally extinct from shooting, trapping and poisoning. After they were nearly wiped out in the lower 48 states, wolves in Idaho were declared endangered in 1974 under the Endangered Species Act. In 1995, wolves from Canada were
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Wilderness is the largest single designated area but consists of numerous disconnected units. The wilderness protects several mountain ranges, extensive wildlife, and a popular whitewater rafting river: the
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Because of its size the wilderness area provides a secluded habitat for a wide variety of mammal species, including some rare, vulnerable species. The wilderness is inhabited by a large population of
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reintroduced here due to the remote location, the availability of prey and the area being under federal jurisdiction. In the same year, wolves were also
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At 2.367 million acres (9,580 km), it is the largest contiguous federally managed wilderness in the United States outside of Alaska. The
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were declared by the U.S. Forest Service as The Idaho Primitive Area. In 1963, the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness was split into three parts: The
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The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness is located in six different national forests plus a relatively tiny portion of land of the
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While designation as a wilderness area in the United States generally requires the prohibition of any motorized machinery, the use of
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had taken his family on a three-day float trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in August 1978, accompanied by
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and her abductor, James DiMaggio. FBI agents rescued Anderson and killed DiMaggio near Morehead Lake on August 10.
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On August 7, 2013, a retired sheriff and three other horseback riders in the rugged back country encountered
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land, it is the core of a 3.3 million acre (13,000 km) roadless area. It is separated from the
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Dant, Sara (May 2008). "Making Wilderness Work: Frank Church and the American Wilderness Movement".
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signed the act on March 14, less than four weeks before Church's death on April 7 at age 59.
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miles (200 km) of the Salmon River to the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. President
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Zoogeography of Gray Wolves (Canis lupus ) in Idaho: A Historical Review
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in the lower 48 states. Beavers that were parachuted into the area (
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forests, with dry, open land along the rivers at lower elevations.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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introduced the measure in the Senate in late February, and
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are scattered throughout the area. Other observable
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existing uses before the wilderness was designated.
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Index

IUCN category
wilderness area

Map showing the location of Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness
Idaho
Valley
Lemhi
Custer
Idaho
U.S.
Yellow Pine, Idaho
45°3′55″N 114°57′16″W / 45.06528°N 114.95444°W / 45.06528; -114.95444
U.S. Forest Service
Bureau of Land Management

wilderness area
Idaho
United States Congress
U.S. Senator
Frank Church
Death Valley
Salmon River
Gospel Hump Wilderness
Forest Service
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
Salmon River Mountains
Clearwater Mountains
Bighorn Crags
Salmon River
rafting

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