Boise National Forest

Boise National Forest is a National Forest covering 2,203,703 sections of land 8,918.07 km2 of the U.S. territory of Idaho. Made on July 1, 1908, from part of Sawtooth National Forest, it is overseen by the U.S. Woodland Service as five units: the Cascade, Emmett, Idaho City, Lowman, and Mountain Home officer locale.

The Idaho Batholith underlies the greater part of Boise National Forest, shaping the woods' Boise, Salmon River, and West mountain goes; the timberland achieves a most extreme rise of 9,730 feet 2,970 m on Steel Mountain.

Normal land cover incorporates sagebrush steppe and spruce-fir backwoods; there are 9,600 miles 15,400 km of streams and waterways and 15,400 sections of land 62 km2 of lakes and supplies. Boise National Forest contains 75 percent of the known populaces of Sacajawea's bitterroot, a blossoming plant endemic to Idaho.