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Red River Wildlife Management Area at 314 acres (1.27 km 2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Idaho County near Elk City. [1] It was purchased in 1993 from Don Wilkerson who offered it to the state to preserve it in a natural, undeveloped state. [ 2 ]
Sand Creek Wildlife Management Area at 31,000 acres (130 km 2) is an Idaho wildlife management area in Fremont County near the town of St. Anthony. [1] The WMA was established in 1947 when the Chapman Ranch was acquired with federal funds. [2]
Elk Bend is an unincorporated community in Lemhi County, Idaho.. Elk Bend was originally established in the mid-1960s as a collection of real estate development projects. These projects were named the Salmon River Estates (Unit 1 and 2), with Salmon Meadows and its annex added later.
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests are a jointly administered set of three national forests located mostly in the U.S. state of Idaho. In 1973, major portions of the Kaniksu , Coeur d'Alene , and St. Joe National Forests were combined to be administratively managed as the Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF).
A new fire agreement between the state and federal partners puts more wildland-urban interface on Idaho taxpayers’ dime – and the state does little to regulate the fast-growing developments.
The Rocky Mountain elk subspecies was reintroduced by hunter-conservation organizations into the Appalachian region of the U.S. where the now extinct eastern elk once lived. [80] They were reintroduced to Pennsylvania beginning in 1913 and throughout the mid-20th Century, and now remain at a stable population of approximately 1,400 individuals.
The Gospel Hump Wilderness is a federally-protected wilderness area that covers 205,796 acres (83,283 ha) of the state of Idaho. [1] Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it received wilderness designation on February 24, 1978 through the passage of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and is part of Nez Perce National Forest.
The Rocky Mountain elk was reintroduced in 1913 to Colorado from Wyoming after the near extinction of the regional herds. While overhunting is a significant contributing factor, the elk's near extinction is mainly attributed to human encroachment and destruction of their natural habitats and migratory corridors.