Little Jacks Creek
Idaho
Little Jacks Creek is located in the Little Jacks Wilderness and flows through a multi-tiered, 1,000-foot-deep basalt canyon system. The narrow, winding stream provides habitat for redband trout, and the area offers excellent opportunities for viewing wildlife, especially bighorn sheep.
Designated Reach
March 30, 2009. Little Jacks Creek from the downstream boundary of the Little Jacks Creek Wilderness upstream to the mouth of OX Prong Creek.
Outstandingly Remarkable Values
Fish
Little Jacks, Big Jacks, Cottonwood, and Duncan Creeks are among the 17% of desert streams in the Northern Basin and Range identified as aquatic-habitat strongholds for redband trout, a BLM sensitive species and a state of Idaho species of special concern. Little Jacks Creek’s good water quality,...Show More
Recreation
Due to its meandering character, diversity of landforms, and topographic screening, Little Dicks Creek offers exceptional opportunities for solitude and for challenging wilderness hiking, wildlife viewing, and photography.
Scenery
Canyons along Little Jacks Creek are dominated by a mixture of high, vertical lines and forms of coarse-textured, red, brown, or blackish eroded cliffs, often glazed with yellow to light green micro-flora. Intertwined with the vertical features are some very steep diagonal lines that frame triang...Show More
Wildlife
Little Jacks Creek and surrounding wilderness provide habitat for mountain quail, sage hens, mountain lions, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, bobcats, coyotes, and bighorn sheep. Common large and mid-sized predators in the area include cougars, bobcats, coyotes, badgers, and raccoons. Small mammals...Show More