Wilderness Study Areas | | WSA Name | Total Acres | | Appendicitis Hill | 21,900 | | Bear Den Butte | 5,411 | | Black Butte | 4,068 | | Black Canyon (Upper Snake FO) | 5,400 | | Black Canyon (Shoshone FO) | 10,371 | | Borah Peak | 3,880 | | Boulder Creek | 1,930 | | Box Creek | 440 | | Burnt Creek | 24,980 | | Cedar Butte | 35,700 | | China Cup Butte | 160 | | Corral-Horse Basin | 48,500 | | Crystal Lake | 9,027 | | Deer Creek | 7,487 | | Eighteenmile | 24,922 | | Friedman Creek | 9,773 | | Goldberg | 3,290 | | Gooding City of Rocks East | 14,743 | | Gooding City of Rocks West | 6,287 | | Grandmother Mountain | 15,019 | | Great Rift | 45,077 | | Hawley Mountain | 15,510 | | Hell's Half Acre | 66,200 | | Henry's Lake | 350 | | Jerry Peak | 46,150 | | Jerry Peak West | 13,530 | | King Hill Creek | 29,309 | | Lava | 23,680 | | Little City of Rocks | 5,875 | | Little Deer | 13,458 | | Little Wood River | 4,265 | | Lower Salmon Falls Creek | 3,500 | | Marshall Mountain | 5,804 | | Petticoat Peak | 11,298 | | Raven's Eye | 29,899 | | Sand Butte | 20,792 | | Sand Mountain | 21,100 | | Selkirk Crest | 720 | | Shale Butte | 15,968 | | Shoshone | 6,914 | | Snake River Islands | 770 | | Snowhole Rapids | 5,068 | | White Knob Mountains | 9,950 | | Worm Creek | 40 | | | | | Total WSA acres in Idaho | 648,515 |
Title I, Subtitle F of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-11, March 30, 2009) designated as Wilderness some 517,000 acres of BLM-managed lands in Owyhee County previously inventoried as Wilderness Study Areas. It also released another 199,000 acres formerly managed as WSAs for multiple use. WSAs in Owyhee County have been removed from the list above and their acreages subtracted from the total.HR 2818 (Aug. 2, 2001) authorized conveyance of approximately 10.23 acres within the Sand Mountain WSA to the owner of the Sand Hills Resort. Conveyed is exempt from all requirements of the IMP for Lands Under Wilderness Review.Presidential Proclamation 7373 (Nov. 15, 2000) transferred portions of four WSAs to the National Park Service, the Great Rift (335,123 acres), Raven Deer (33,531), and Bear Den Butte (9,700 acres). WSAs included in the Monument will continue to be managed under Section 603 (c) of FLPMA in the Idaho WSA total acres.Public Law 103-64 (Aug. 4, 1993) released the Birds of Prey WSA (26, 713 acres) from further management pursuant to section 603(c) of FLPMA.
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