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Mount Wilson Wilderness is a 23,900-acre wilderness area located within the Black Mountains in Mohave County Arizona, directly bordering Lake Mead National Recreation Area. It is located 19 miles south of the Hoover Dam and can be accessed by dirt roads originating from Temple Bar Road. [ 1 ]
Mount Wilson is a mountain in Mohave County, Arizona, U.S. At 5,456 feet (1,663 m), it is the second highest point of the Black Mountains after Mount Perkins. [3]Mount Wilson Wilderness is a 23,900-acre protected wilderness area centered around the mountain, established in 1990 under the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Little Wilson Creek Wilderness is an area in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area protected by the Eastern Wilderness Act of Congress to maintain its present, natural condition. As part of the wilderness system, it is intended to preserve a variety of natural life forms and contribute to a diversity of plant and animal gene pools.
The Wilson Creek Wilderness area was once used by the Cherokee Native Americans as a summer hunting ground. [4] The area was settled in 1750, and logging began in the forest. Mortimer, once the largest community in the Wilson Creek area, was the site of the Ritter Lumber Company sawmill. This sawmill was destroyed by a storm that produced over ...
Mount Wilson is a mountain located in the Spring Mountain range of southern Nevada. It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area , part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness Area.
Wilson continued south on the Germanna Plank Road toward Wilderness Tavern and the Orange Turnpike. He halted at Wilderness Tavern at noon to wait for the V Corps, and sent scouts to the south and west. [56] A few miles east, Brigadier General David M. Gregg led his 2nd Cavalry Division across the river at Ely's Ford. [57]
Sigurd Ferdinand Olson (April 4, 1899 – January 13, 1982) was an American writer, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wilderness.For more than thirty years, he served as a wilderness guide in the lakes and forests of the Quetico-Superior country of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario.
Wilson Mountain is located three miles north of Sedona in the Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness, on land managed by Coconino National Forest. It is the highest peak in Sedona, [4] and second-highest in the wilderness. [1] Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains to Oak Creek which is part of the Verde River watershed. [3]