The Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wilderness is a protected area in the

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, located in Custer County,

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. The

Sawtooth National Recreation Area The Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA) is a national recreation area in central Idaho, United States that is managed as part of Sawtooth National Forest. The recreation area, established on August 22, 1972, is managed by the U.S. Forest Se ...

, in the

Sawtooth National Forest Sawtooth National Forest is a National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was originally ...

, manages the majority of the wilderness, with managed by the Bureau of Land Management at the wilderness's eastern edge along the

East Fork Salmon River The East Fork Salmon River is a tributary of the Salmon River, flowing through Custer County, Idaho in the United States. It joins the Salmon River about east of Clayton and south-southwest of Challis. The East Fork Salmon River is formed a ...

. The wilderness encompasses part of the White Cloud Mountains and is north of the

Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness The Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness is a protected area in the western United States, located in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area in central Idaho. Part of the Sawtooth National Forest in Blaine and Custer counties, the wilderness covers par ...

and west of the Jim McClure–Jerry Peak Wilderness. The area, originally White Clouds Wilderness, was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System in 2015 on August 7, with the passage of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act. Sponsored by second district

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, a

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from Blackfoot, it passed

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without objection and was signed into law by President

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. In 2018 it was renamed to honor the late Idaho Governor

Cecil Andrus Cecil Dale Andrus (August 25, 1931 – August 24, 2017) was an American politician who served 26th and 28th governor of Idaho, for total of fourteen years. A Democrat, he also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981 during the ...

, over the opposition of Senator

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