SC: Idaho Denied National Park

Why isn’t there a national park in Idaho? There’s not - if you don’t count the 35 square miles of Yellowstone National Park that laps over the Wyoming border - because the Forest Service won a bruising bureaucratic struggle with the National Park Service for control of what’s now the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. “Three times in the 20th century the Sawtooths (pictured) have been the focus of campaigns to bring Idaho its first national park,” said Douglas Dodd, an associate professor of history at Cal State-Bakersfield. “These proposals failed … due to the shrewd political strategy of the U.S. Forest Service. Time and again, the agency and its allies outmaneuvered park proponents in order to thwart park proposals and keep the Sawtooth country under Forest Service administration”/ Steve Crump , Twin Falls Times-News. More here .

Question: Should there be a national park in Idaho?