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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 Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael River The San Rafael Swell was formed when deeply buried Precambrian rocks faulted , or broke, during the Laramide orogeny , about 60 million years ago. These "basement" rocks below the present-day Swell moved upwards relative to the surrounding areas and caused the overlying sedimentary rocks to fold ...
The lower 57.2 miles (92.1 km) is known as the Little Colorado River Gorge [3] and forms one of the largest arms of the Grand Canyon, at over 3,000 feet (910 m) deep where it joins the Colorado near Desert View in Grand Canyon National Park. An overlook of the gorge is a Navajo Nation Tribal Park.
The community takes its name from Wild Horse Creek, [3] and began in 1869 as a cavalry outpost, which soon became a railway station and had expanded to a town by the mid-1870s. After a peak of population and business activities in the early 1900s, the town began dwindling by 1917, when most of it burned down in a great fire.
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.
Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge; Crouse Canyon – historic horse trail, modern dirt road; Gates of Lodore – historic and modern river access point; Irish Canyon – historic horse trail, modern dirt road, petroglyph site
Wild Horse Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Colorado. [1] Wild Horse Creek was named for the wild horses which roamed along its course. [2]
The upper 7-mile (11 km) of the creek, including Wildhorse Lake, are part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. In addition, a 2.6-mile (4.2 km) tributary, Little Wildhorse Creek, is part of the system. Wildhorse Creek and Little Wildhorse Creek flow through the Steens Mountain Wilderness before entering private land at lower elevations.