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The Inyo National Forest was named after Inyo County, California, in which much of the forest resides. The name "Inyo" comes from a Native American word meaning "dwelling place of the great spirit". [8] The forest spans parts of Inyo, Mono, Tulare, Fresno and Madera counties in California, and Esmeralda and Mineral counties in Nevada.
Cottonwood Creek originates in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forests of the White Mountains of eastern California.The creek flows eastward from below the 14,000-foot (4,300 m) alpine crest of the White Mountains and descends through groves of bristlecone pine, aspen and mountain mahogany, then a woodland of pinyon pine and juniper, and finally into sagebrush as the stream ends in endorheic Fish ...
The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California for 90 miles (140 km), in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. [2] Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir , it encompasses 652,793 acres (2,641.76 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
The Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) trees grow between 9,800 and 11,000 feet (3,000–3,400 m) above sea level, in xeric alpine conditions, protected within the Inyo National Forest. [5] [6] Limber pine (Pinus flexilis) also grow in the forest.
The Inyo National Forest — in eastern California and western Nevada. ... Convict Lake; Mount Corcoran; Cottonwood Creek (Inyo County, California) Mount Crocker;
Death Valley National Park (part) Inyo National Forest (part) Manzanar National Historic Site; There are 22 official wilderness areas in Inyo County that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. This is the second-largest number of any county, exceeded only by San Bernardino County's 35 wilderness areas.
The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States.The wilderness spans 231,533 acres (93,698 ha); 33.9% of the territory lies in the Inyo National Forest, 65.8% is in the Sierra National Forest, and the remaining 0.3% covers nearly all of Devils Postpile National Monument. [1]
Inyo National Forest protects the eastern slope of the southern Sierra. The southern part of the forest, along the western edge of Owens Valley , is characterized by a precipitous drop from the Sierra crest, reaching up to 14,505 feet (4,421 m) at its highest point at Mount Whitney , down to the valley floor at 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to 5,000 ...