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The San Rafael Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of north central Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is north of the city of Santa Barbara and east of Santa Maria within the Los Padres National Forest .
Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve consists of 227 acres (919,000 m 2) of native Texas Hill Country habitat west of Austin, Texas in West Lake Hills. The preserve was founded in 1974 by seven women who were members of an environmentalist group called Now or Never, and it was Austin's first nature preserve. [ 1 ]
Most of the mountain range is within the Los Padres National Forest, and the northern slopes are included in the remote San Rafael Wilderness area.. The highest peaks include Big Pine Mountain (6,820 ft; 2,080 m), [2] San Rafael Mountain (6,593 ft; 2,010 m) [3] and McKinley Mountain (6,220 ft; 1,900 m), [4] none of which are easily accessible except by foot or horse.
The Airport fire, unintentionally started by workers using heavy machinery to move boulders, has burned almost 24,000 acres since it began Sept. 9 near Trabuco Canyon in Orange County. It ...
Another large wilderness created in the 1970s was the Ventana Wilderness in the Santa Lucia Mountains. The Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act of 1992 expanded existing wilderness by 84,400 acres (34,200 ha) and designated 316,050 acres (127,900 ha) of new wilderness that provides habitat for the condor. A total of 48% of the total ...
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The entire route of the trail was declared open in a press release by the Forest Service August 27, 2018 [1] Due to the 2009 Station Fire, part of the Gabrielino was closed by the USFS including the portion of the trail between Switzer down to the Arroyo Seco. With the help of a joint project from a variety of trail groups including the Mt ...
The 153,180-acre (619.9 km 2) [1] Angelina National Forest is located in East Texas in parts of San Augustine, Angelina, Jasper and Nacogdoches counties. [1] It is managed together with the three other National Forests in Texas ( Davy Crockett , Sabine , and Sam Houston ) from Forest Service offices in Lufkin, Texas .