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Map of BLM Wilderness Study Areas. Slinkard BLM Wilderness Study Area, California Sutton Mountain BLM Wilderness Study Area, Oregon. A wilderness study area (WSA) contains undeveloped United States federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, and managed to preserve its natural conditions.
This is a list of some of the wilderness study areas (WSA) in the United States as of December 2009. Wilderness study areas are designated lands that meet criteria of the Wilderness Act and are managed as wilderness by their parent agency, pending final determination by Congress.
The BLM Wilderness Study Area (WSA) was declared in May 1992 and would protect an area of about 26.5 km 2 (6,563 acres). The area was prospected by the dinosaur hunter Charles Hazelius Sternberg in the summer of 1921. [1]
The Devils Garden is also known as a Wilderness Study Area [11] for the purpose of possible wilderness designation; however, wilderness status was not recommended by the BLM's District Manager in an Instant Study Area report [13] submitted to the U.S. Congress in 1991. One of the stated reasons was that the existing roads, parking lot, picnic ...
The wilderness study area is an immense open area of stabilized and semi-stabilized sand dunes, unique in western Arizona. Recreation activities include backpacking, day hiking, sightseeing, horseback riding, and botanical and wildlife study.
The Sleeping Giant wilderness study area is an important habitat for mountain goats. The Sleeping Giant region is a roughly rectangular area bounded by Interstate 15 on the west and Holter Lake on the east, the south boundary runs from the Hilger Valley to the Ming Bar , and the north boundary runs from the northern edge of the Oxbow Bend of Holter Lake to Interstate 15.
The highest point in the West Pioneers is Stine Mountain, el. 9,497 ft. [3] 148,000 acres (60,000 ha) of the West Pioneers are a Wilderness Study Area. All told, about 239,000 acres (97,000 ha) of the West Pioneers were roadless as of 1992, including the Wilderness Study Area.
The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed March 12, 2019, designates the Wilderness as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, protecting approximately 27,673 acres. [2] Prior to its 2019 designation, it was known as the Aden Lava Flow Wilderness Study Area.