The Jim McClure–Jerry Peak Wilderness is a protected area in Salmon-Challis National Forest and

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land in Custer County,

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. The wilderness directly adjoins 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 p ...

on its southwest side and is east of the Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wilderness, which it does not directly adjoin. It is named for Jim McClure who was a Senator from Idaho. The area was added to the

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on August 7, 2015 with the passage of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act (), which was sponsored by Representative

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and passed Congress without objection before being signed into law by President

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