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The Pecos Wilderness is a heavily forested, high-elevation and rugged mountain land, ranging from 8,400 feet to over 13,000 feet. Truchas Peak, at 13,103 feet, is the second highest point in New Mexico.
The forest is located mainly in Rio Arriba (63.4% of acreage) and Taos (34.65%) counties, but smaller areas extend eastward into western Mora and Colfax counties. [ 4 ] Wheeler Peak , the highest mountain in New Mexico at 13,161 feet (4,011 m), is located in the National Forest.
Santa Fe National Forest was established on July 1, 1915 by the U.S. Forest Service with the amalgamation of Jemez National Forest to the west of Santa Fe and Pecos National Forest to the east. [3] The former division is remembered in the ranger districts, with the Jemez Ranger District to the west and the Pecos/Las Vegas district to the east.
Oct. 17—The ease of access to the Pecos Wilderness lures many travelers to Santa Fe up to the Winsor Trail for an opportunity to take in the natural splendor that sits a few thousand feet above ...
Pecos National Forest in New Mexico was established as the Pecos River Forest Reserve by the United States General Land Office on January 11, 1892 with 311,040 acres (1,258.7 km 2). After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became Pecos River National Forest on March 4, 1907, and was renamed Pecos National ...
The main unit of the park preserves the ruins of Pecos Pueblo, known historically as Cicuye (sometimes spelled Ciquique), the "village of 500 warriors". [4] [5] The first Pecos pueblo was one of two dozen rock-and-mud villages built in the valley around AD 1100 in the prehistoric Pueblo II Era.
Salt Creek Wilderness is a designated Wilderness Area located on the Pecos River approximately 12 miles north-east of Roswell, New Mexico. Established in 1970 within the Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, the 9,621 acre Wilderness is administered by the U. S Fish and Wildlife Service. Combining the scrub lands of the Chihuahuan Desert with ...
Map of Precambrian bedrock exposures in New Mexico Sandia Crest, an uplifted Mesoproterozoic batholith. The crust underlying the state formed between 1.7 and 1.8 billion years ago as island arcs. This is recorded in the rocks of the Moppin Complex, the Gold Hill complex, and the Pecos greenstone belt in northern New Mexico.