During the intensive wilderness inventory, inventory units containing over 1,938,000 acres of roadless public lands in Idaho were examined in detail to determine the presence or absence of wilderness characteristics. As a result of the intensive inventory field work and evaluation of public comments, it was determined by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that 36 inventory units totaling 818,206 acres do contain wilderness characteristics, and that 74 inventory units and 1,120,049 acres do not.