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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 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 Mountains. The Wyoming Geological Survey studied the area and determined that "The Crack" may be ...
Eastern section of Bighorn Lake reservoir in Bighorn Canyon. The reservoir is 40 mi (64 km) south of Billings, Montana. It stretches the entire 72 mi (115 km) length of the Bighorn Canyon at full pool. The Lake was created by the 1965 construction of Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River, near Fort Smith, Montana. [2]
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. This area represents the entire spectrum of environments found in the Bighorn National Forest and ...
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.
The reservoir it creates, Sibley Lake, has a water surface of 3.4 square miles (8.8 km 2), a shoreline of about 38 miles (61 km), and a maximum capacity of 56,700 acre-feet (69,900,000 m 3). [3] The natural wetlands on this site known as Lac Terre Noir was drained in the early twentieth century, then re-developed as a reservoir and water source ...
Sibley Lake, North Dakota National Natural Landmark; Sibley Lake National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 04:24 (UTC). ...
The Sibley Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state of North Dakota and consists of 1,077 acres (4.35 km 2). Sibley Lake is a privately owned easement refuge, managed with by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The refuge was established to protect habitat for migratory bird species, white-tail deer, and other mammals.