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Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area is a non-motorized recreation area located on the west side of the Missouri River and Holter Lake located about 30 miles (48 km) north of Helena, Montana. [1] Designated as a wilderness study area in 1981, [ 2 ] the Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area contains approximately 6,666 acres (2,698 ha) of nearly ...
Wilderness study areas State Name Area Recommendation date Alaska Central Arctic Management Area 478,700 acres (1,937 km 2) Arizona Baker Canyon 4,182 acres (16.92 km 2) Arizona Cactus Plain: 59,118 acres (239.24 km 2) California Aqua Tibia 344 acres (1.39 km 2) California Avawatz Mountains 48,621 acres (196.76 km 2) NA California Bear Canyon
On BLM lands, a WSA is a roadless area that has been inventoried (but not designated by Congress) and found to have wilderness characteristics as described in Section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and Section 2(c) of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Wilderness Study Area characteristics are:
The "Sleeping Giant" mountain formation, on the western edge of the Big Belts, part of the Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area The Big Belts in late fall as viewed northeast of Helena Wall Mountain, southeast face of Big Belt Mountains
Responding to a heightened public interest in conservation and an increased threat to public lands by development, and other intrusive or consumptive activities, such as logging, Congress passed the Wilderness Act of 1964, Public Law 88-577 (16 U.S.C. 1131-1136) on September 3, 1964.
Sleeping Giant mountain and ridge in Montana in the USA, part of Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area; Sleeping Giant (Ontario), a formation of mesas on Sibley Peninsula, Ontario, Canada; The Sleeping Giant (Abercraf), local name for hill called Cribarth, Powys, Wales; The Sleeping Giant, a hill near the village of Kinloch Rannoch in Perth and ...
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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 ]