Wilderne Areas • Rocky Mountain Region Commemorating 50 Years of Wilderne Stewardship, 1964-2014 South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Colorado DENVER CHEYENNE Wyoming PIERRE Spanish Peaks Greenhorn Mountain Eagles Nest Ptarmigan Peak Flat Tops Byers Peak Vasquez Peak James Peak Indian Peaks Sarvis Creek Never Summer Comanche Peak Cache La Poudre Rawah Neota Mount Zirkel Platte River Huston Park Popo Agie Fitzpatrick Washakie Cloud Peak North Absaroka Absaroka-Beartooth Black Elk Soldier Creek Encampment River Savage Run Sangre de Cristo Holy Cross Hunter-Fryingpan Mt. Massive South San Juan Weminuche Lizard Head Mount Sneffels Uncompahgre West Elk Raggeds MaroonBells-Snowmass Fossil Ridge Collegiate Peaks Buffalo Peaks Lost Creek Mount Evans Powderhorn La Garita Cloud Peak Wilderness Has 140 miles of trails and 55 miles of fishing streams Fitzpatrick Wilderness Home to one of the largest bighorn sheep herds in North America and the most glaciers in the lower 48 states Flat Tops Wilderness Birthplace of the wilderness concept by Arthur Carhart to leave Trapper’s Lake undeveloped Weminuche Wilderness Largest wilderness in Colorado, 488,210 acres and headwaters of Rio Grande River, 3rd longest river in U.S. To learn more about wilderness, visit: www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r2/wilderness www.wilderness.net www.wilderness50th.org Six Region 2 Forest Service areas in Colorado and Wyoming were designated as wilderness in 1964 with passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-577): La Garita, Maroon Bells-Snowmass, Rawah, Mt. Zirkel, West Elk in Colorado and the Washakie and North Absaroka in Wyoming (shown in blue).
2
Embed
Wilderness Areas • Rocky Mountain Region · Rocky Mountain Region 46 Wilderness areas in four states — Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska (no Wilderness in Kansas) 20%
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Wilderness Areas • Rocky Mountain RegionCommemorating 50 Years of Wilderness Stewardship, 1964-2014
South Dakota
Nebraska
KansasColorado
DENVER
CHEYENNE
Wyoming
PIERRE
Spanish Peaks
Greenhorn Mountain
Eagles Nest Ptarmigan Peak
Flat TopsByers Peak Vasquez Peak
James Peak
Indian PeaksSarvis Creek
Never SummerComanche Peak
Cache La PoudreRawah
Neota
Mount Zirkel
Platte RiverHuston Park
Popo Agie
Fitzpatrick
Washakie
Cloud Peak
North Absaroka
Absaroka-Beartooth
Black Elk
Soldier Creek
EncampmentRiver Savage Run
Sangre de Cristo
Holy Cross
Hunter-FryingpanMt. Massive
South San Juan
Weminuche
Lizard Head
Mount SneffelsUncompahgre
West Elk
Raggeds
MaroonBells-Snowmass
Fossil Ridge
Collegiate Peaks
Buffalo Peaks
Lost Creek
Mount Evans
PowderhornLa Garita
Cloud Peak WildernessHas 140 miles of trails and55 miles of fishing streams
Fitzpatrick WildernessHome to one of the largest bighorn sheep herds in North America and the most glaciers in the lower 48 states
Flat Tops WildernessBirthplace of the wilderness concept by Arthur Carhart to leave Trapper’s Lake undeveloped
Weminuche WildernessLargest wilderness in Colorado, 488,210 acresand headwaters of Rio Grande River,3rd longest river in U.S.
To learn more about wilderness, visit:
www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r2/wilderness
www.wilderness.net
www.wilderness50th.org
Six Region 2 Forest Service areas in Colorado and Wyoming were
designated as wilderness in 1964 with passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964
(Public Law 88-577): La Garita, Maroon Bells-Snowmass, Rawah, Mt. Zirkel,
West Elk in Colorado and the Washakie and North Absaroka in Wyoming