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The river traveled through to Indian Wells Valley, and its course was diverted several times by volcanic activity. The falls were formed when the river was forced to divert its course over a basalt flow, polishing and reshaping the rock into a variety of unique shapes and forms. [3] [5] All the lava flows at Fossil Falls are basaltic.
Coso Rock Art District is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Petroglyphs by Paleo-Indians and/or Native Americans. [1] The district is located near the towns of China Lake and Ridgecrest, California. Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
The Coso Volcanic Field is located in Inyo County, California, at the western edge of the Basin and Range geologic province and northern region of the Mojave Desert. The Fossil Falls are part of the Coso Field, created by the prehistoric Owens River. They are within the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and northeast of Little Lake and U.S ...
Laramie River – 1,783 acres (7.22 km 2) Los Mogotes – 33,456 acres (135.39 km 2) Lower Colorado River – 9,000 acres (36 km 2) Lower Greasewood Creek – 210 acres (0.85 km 2) Lyons Gulch – 400 acres (1.62 km 2) McCoy Fan Delta – 1,500 acres (6.07 km 2) McElmo Rare Lizard and Snake – 427 acres (1.73 km 2)
California Beauty Mountain 11,364 acres (45.99 km 2) July 1991 California Big Butte 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) July 1991 California Bitterbrush 640 acres (2.6 km 2) July 1991 California Black Mountain 150 acres (0.61 km 2) NA California Bodie 16,482 acres (66.70 km 2) July 1991 California Bodie Mountain 23,934 acres (96.86 km 2) July 1991 California
The Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways are roads that have been designated by the Bureau of Land Management as scenic byways. Some are also National Scenic Byways or National Forest Scenic Byways. The program was initiated in 1989 and 54 byways have since been designated in the Western United States. [1]
Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands. Headquartered in Washington, D.C. , the BLM oversees more than 247.3 million acres (1,001,000 km 2 ) of land, or one-eighth of the United States's total landmass.