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The Colorado state wildlife areas are managed for hunting, fishing, observation, management, and preservation of wildlife. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife division of the U.S. State of Colorado manages more than 300 state wildlife areas with a total area of more than 860 square miles (2,230 km 2 ) in the state.
The Colorado Natural Areas Program was established in 1977 to preserve and protect special areas of the state with distinctive flora, fauna, ecological, geological, and paleontologic features. It is a program of Colorado Parks and Wildlife that identifies and protects public, and in some cases private, areas with at least one unique or high ...
An enlargeable map of Colorado showing the 42 National Wildernesses in red East Rim Arch in the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness. Lake Isabelle in the Indian Peaks Wilderness. Mystic Island Lake in the Holy Cross Wilderness. The Lost Creek Wilderness. There are 44 National Wildernesses within Colorado.
The forest highlighted in red in a map of Colorado. White River National Forest is a National Forest in northwest Colorado. It is named after the White River that passes through its northern section. It is the most visited National Forest in the United States, primarily from users of the twelve ski areas within its boundaries.
Sievers Mountain, near Maroon Bells. The Elk Mountains are a high, rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of west-central Colorado in the United States.The mountains sit on the western side of the Continental Divide, largely in southern Pitkin and northern Gunnison counties, in the area southwest of Aspen, south of the Roaring Fork River valley, and east of the Crystal River.
Uncompahgre National Forest is a U.S. National Forest covering 955,229 acres (1,492.55 sq mi, or 3,865.68 km 2) [1] in (in descending order of land area) parts of Montrose, Mesa, San Miguel, Ouray, Gunnison, Hinsdale, San Juan, and Delta Counties in western Colorado.
The highest point in the West Elk Mountains is West Elk Peak, which is located near the center of the large volcano that once dominated this landscape. Stratigraphic profiles of these rock layers can be seen at the southern edge of the West Elk Mountains where the Gunnison River has eroded through the volcanic strata.
Highland Peak is located 18 miles (29 km) west of the Continental Divide in the Elk Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains.The mountain is situated 4.7 miles (7.6 km) south-southwest of the community of Aspen and set on the boundary of the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness, on land managed by White River National Forest. [3]