Inyo Mountains Wilderness
Geologically, the mountains are a fault block range in the Basin and Range Province, at the western end of the Great Basin. They are considered to be among the most important and best-known Late Proterozoic to Cambrian sections in the United States.
Wilderness
Most of the mountain range (199,208 acres (806.17 km)) is designated as the Inyo Mountain Wilderness, managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the south and the United States Forest Service in the north. The USFS manages 73,300 acres (297 km) of the wilderness all within Inyo National Forest.
Wildlife in the area includes the endangered Inyo Mountains salamander and the desert bighorn sheep. Plant communities include creosote and sagebrush at lower altitudes, and bristlecone pine forests at higher altitudes. A number of rare and endemic plants are adapted to the unique limestone soils of the mountains, including the cliffdweller, bristlecone cryptantha, and Inyo rock daisy.
References
- ^ "Waucoba Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ "Inyo Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ Localities of the Cambrian: White-Inyo Mountains
- ^ Inyo Mountains Wilderness - Wilderness Connect
- ^ Inyo Mountains Wilderness - Inyo National Forest
- ^ "BLM: Inyo Mountain Wilderness". Archived from the original on 2004-08-11. Retrieved 2004-06-27.
- ^ Inyo Mountains Wilderness - Wilderness Connect
- ^ CNPS: Caulostramina
- ^ CNPS: Cryptantha roosiorum
- ^ CNPS: Perityle inyoensis
External links
- Inyo Mountain Wilderness - BLM
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