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Colorado Parks and Wildlife manages fishing at the reservoir, which forms the Sanchez Reservoir State Wildlife Area. However, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has issued a "Fish consumption advisory," warning of unsafe mercury levels in northern pike and walleye caught in the lake.
www.blm.gov /co /st /en /nca /ggnca.html The Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area is a 62,844-acre (254.32 km 2 ) National Conservation Area located in west-central Colorado near Montrose . It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as part of the National Landscape Conservation System .
The Fossil Ridge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located approximately 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison National Forest.The 13,992-acre (56.62 km 2) wilderness includes Fossil Ridge, a high, exposed ridge of Paleozoic carbonates that contain epeiric sea fossils.
Goat Hill—also called Bellvue Dome—is a dome in Larimer County, Colorado near Bellvue. The dome has a gradual slope on its east side, but its west side is an almost-vertical cliff that hangs over the Cache la Poudre River that passes directly below. The mountain was formed as sedimentary rock was uplifted and folded during the Laramide ...
Mount Sneffels is the highest summit of the Sneffels Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America.The 14,153-foot (4313.93 m) fourteener is located in the Mount Sneffels Wilderness of Uncompahgre National Forest, 6.7 miles (10.8 km) west by south (bearing 256°) of the City of Ouray in Ouray County, Colorado, United States.
On the summit of Fairview Peak is the Fairview Peak Lookout. The one-room stone structure with a second-story wooden cupola is the highest-elevation fire lookout constructed in the United States.
Cimarrona Peak, elevation 12,570 feet (3,830 meters), is a summit in the San Juan Mountains in Hinsdale County, Colorado, four miles (6.4 kilometers) north of Williams Creek Reservoir. [1] The mountain lies in the Weminuche Wilderness and the San Juan National Forest .
The natural habitat of eastern Colorado was the shortgrass prairie. Over the past 150 years, much of the land was used for agriculture. Of the 40% of the remaining shortgrass prairie, much of it is degraded and fragmented due to neighboring cities, towns, and farms. [2] The area has thriving prairie dog colonies. [3]