Stretching across some of Idaho’s wildest country, the Nez Perce National Forest is defined by deep canyons, rushing rivers, and dense forests. Its geography limits roads and protects untouched ecosystems tied to Nez Perce history. Here, geography doesn’t open land — it protects it. #NezPerceNationalForest #Idaho #USGeography #NationalForests #WildernessAreas #ClearwaterRiver #MountainGeography #MapFacts #GeographyFacts #DidYouKnow #ViralFacts #fblifestyle | Global Maps

The stunning Clearwater River Basin in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest is home to Chinook salmon, steelhead, westslope cutthroat trout, and bull trout due to its cold, clean, high-elevation streams. However, 700 miles of rivers and streams within the Clearwater River Basin are at risk from commercial logging, mining, and future dams. American Whitewater Act now: Tell the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest to issue new guidance to protect the Clearwater River Basin from increased extra

Nez Perce Tribe’s Tin’úun Recovery Research, management, and policy engagement to recover bighorn sheep within the Nez Perce homeland. https://www.nezpercewildlife.org/bighorn-sheep 📸 Live footage from Nez Perce Tourism Hear the Echoes of our Ancestors Jet Boat Tour navagating up the Snake River July of 2022. | Nez Perce Tourism

#DYK, the first fire jumped by the new “smokejumpers” was on the Nez Perce National Forest on July 12, 1940, by Rufus Robinson and Earl Cooley? But where did the idea of parachuting into the middle of a burning forest come from? In the early 1900s, the paradigm of the day was that wildfire was a destructive force that robbed the country of valuable timber resources. After WWI, advances in aviation were explored for their application to firefighting. A doctrine of fire suppression in the young U.