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Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney , the highest point in the contiguous United States ; Boundary Peak , the highest point in Nevada; and the Ancient ...
The Mount Charleston Wilderness Area is located west of Las Vegas in the southern part of the state of Nevada in the western United States.It was created by the U.S. Congress in 1989 under the provisions allowed by the Wilderness Act of 1964, and is managed by both the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.
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 wilderness is largely managed by the Inyo National Forest, with 24,162 acres (9,778 ha) managed by the Bureau of Land Management. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The wilderness covers the White Mountains along the eastern boundary of California, from Boundary Peak in the north, south almost to Bishop .
The Boundary Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the White Mountains of Esmeralda County, in the western section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. The wilderness covers an area of approximately 10,000 acres (40 km 2 ), and is administered by the Inyo National Forest .
The Inyo rock daisy only grows in the crevices of cliff walls in the southern Inyo Mountains near Death Valley National Park.
It is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Porterville within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest. It is 303,511 acres (1,228.3 km 2 ) [ 1 ] in size and was created by the US Congress in 1978 as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System .
Bishop Pass, 11,972 ft (3,649 m), [1] is a high mountain pass in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, on the border of the Inyo National Forest (John Muir Wilderness) on the north and Kings Canyon National Park on the south.