On a recent backpacking trip to Sawtooth Lake, a friend and I encountered dozens of other hikers, several other backpackers and a couple of trail runners. When we got to Sawtooth Lake right around ...

The Sawtooth National Recreation Area is home to more than 300 high-elevation mountain lakes, including this unnamed lake at the base of Thompson Peak. (Clark Corbin/Idaho Capital Sun) Environmental ...

STANLEY, Idaho — The Bench Lake Fire continues to burn in the Sawtooth wilderness near Stanley. As of Thursday evening, it had burned 2,037 acres and was 8% contained. Firefighters are set up at an ...

For nearly 60 years throughout the 20th century, there was a constant tug of war in Idaho over a vast swath of land in Central Idaho, including the Sawtooth Range. The fight? Whether the Sawtooths and ...

BOISE, Idaho — The pilot of a helicopter that was responding to a small wildfire in central Idaho before crashing in the Sawtooth National Forest survived and was able to hike to a waiting ambulance, ...

A fire at a high mountain lake in the Sawtooth Range has shut down access to several popular trails as firefighters work to get the blaze under control. The 44-acre Alpine Lake Fire is burning east of ...

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, Bill Platts’ job was to survey dozens of lakes in and around Central Idaho, examining their water quality and the suitability of their fish habitat. One day in August ...

First protected in 1937 as a "Primitive Area," the rugged Sawtooth Wilderness was officially created by Congress in 1972, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The wilderness features hundreds of ...

Congressman Mike Simpson and Rick Johnson enjoy the view looking at Castle Peak, the highest point in the White Cloud Mountains. Simpson and Johnson worked together for decades to protect the ...

Nothing quite beats the feeling of waking up to a calm, quiet, high-mountain lake, like this scene at dawn on a trip in 2021 to Sawtooth Lake in the Sawtooth Wilderness in the Sawtooth National ...

Something was happening in the White Clouds, a remote mountain wilderness near the Sawtooth Range. Boyd Norton, then a research physicist at the Idaho National Laboratory, got a call informing him ...