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Wild horses in the Pryor Mountains along the Wyoming-Montana border Bighorn Lake in the South District. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national recreation area established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation.
Entirely within Bighorn National Forest, [2] the wilderness was established in 1984 in an effort to preserve the wildest section of the Bighorn Mountains. The wilderness has the highest peaks in the Bighorn Mountains including Cloud Peak and Black Tooth Mountain , as well as Cloud Peak Glacier , the only remaining active glacier in the Bighorn ...
The Rock Creek Roadless Area (B032) is located northwest of Buffalo, Wyoming, in the Bighorn National Forest.It comprises roughly 34,000 acres (140 km 2) of forested timberlands, mountain parks, rugged canyons, and stunning rock formations.
The Bighorn National Forest was established as the Big Horn National Forest on 22 February 1897, and encompasses 1,198,080 acres. On 1 July 1908 the name was changed to the Bighorn National Forest through an executive order. In September 1981 the national forest had 1,115,171 acres, with 1,107,670 of those acres being National Forest land. [7]
Bighorn Peak (12,324 feet (3,756 m)) is located in the Bighorn Mountains in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] The peak is the seventh highest in the range and it is in the Cloud Peak Wilderness of Bighorn National Forest. [4] Bighorn Peak is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Darton Peak.
Bureau of Land Management map of the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range, showing BLM, Crow Nation, Forest Service, National Park Service, private, and state lands. In 1900, there were two to five million feral horses in the United States. [9] However, their numbers were in steep decline as domestic cattle and sheep competed with them for ...
The range is the location of the headwaters of the Little Bighorn, Tongue, and Powder rivers. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area consists of approximately 120,000 acres (490 km 2) within the Bighorn Mountains. It includes Bighorn Lake, a reservoir damming the Bighorn River. In 2015, a sudden, huge 'gash' was found in Wyoming's Big Horn ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]