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    The DominguezEscalante National Conservation Area is a 209,610-acre (848.3 km2) National Conservation Area located in western Colorado southeast of Grand...
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    National Conservation Area is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. They are nature conservation areas managed by the Bureau...
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    the three National Conservation Areas within Colorado. DominguezEscalante National Conservation Area Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area McInnis...
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    National Monument Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (part) Grand Mesa National Forest Manti-La Sal National Forest...
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    Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez left Santa Fe, New Mexico attempting to find a route to the missions of California. The Dominguez–Escalante...
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    Canyon–Parashant National Monument, DominguezEscalante National Conservation Area, Petrified Forest National Park, and El Malpais National Conservation Area. The...
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  • Colorado. DominguezEscalante National Conservation Area Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area The Bureau...
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    Uncompahgre Plateau. The Wilderness Area is a portion of the larger Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area, 209,610-acre (848.3 km2) in size. Protected...
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    The hall takes its name from the Escalante Canyon, located in the DominguezEscalante National Conservation Area southeast of Grand Junction. Known...
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    Gunnison National Park Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wilderness Curecanti National Recreation Area (part) Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (part)...
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    348 Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (part) Grand Mesa National Forest Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area...
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    Garden of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in south central Utah, United States, is a protected area featuring hoodoos, natural arches...
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  • area, was not damaged during the fire. The DomínguezEscalante expedition (1776) passed through the Dolores area and then east of present-day Cahone and...
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    the region were Spanish missionaries and explorers from the 1776 DomínguezEscalante expedition. Later, Mormon explorers searched the region during the...
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  • The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting 111,889,002 acres (174,826.566 sq mi; 452,798.73 km2) of federal...
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    National Conservation Lands, formally known as the National Landscape Conservation System, is a 35-million-acre (140,000 km2) collection of lands in 873...
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    Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in Washington County, Utah, and Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area) and one new National Monument (the...
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  • documented Europeans in the area were Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante of the DomínguezEscalante expedition. The expedition...
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    Paiute occurred in 1776, when fathers Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez encountered them during an attempt to find an overland...
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    an act abolishing the national monument and creating the Wheeler Geologic Area of Rio Grande National Forest. The geologic area is now part of the La...
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  • Thumbnail for McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area
    The McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area (MCNCA) is a 123,400-acre (499 km2) National Conservation Area located in Mesa County, west of Grand Junction...
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    Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. 2011. Retrieved 9-26-2011. "Dominguez and Escalante Expedition in 1776". www.uintahbasintah.org. The Historic Period:...
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    Curecanti National Recreation Area (Pronounced /kɜːrɪˈkɑːntiː/ (locally) or /kuːrɪˈkɑːntiː/.) is a National Park Service unit located on the Gunnison...
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    which is headquartered in Cedar City. The DomínguezEscalante expedition traveled through the Iron County area on October 12, 1776. Fur trapper Jedediah...
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    the area in 1765, followed in 1776 by the DomínguezEscalante expedition. Fur trappers, also called mountain men, of European descent entered the area to...
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    Gunnison Gorge Wilderness (category Colorado protected area stubs)
    miles (23 km) of the Gunnison River inside the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. "Gunnison Gorge Wilderness". Geographic Names Information System...
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    media related to Pawnee National Grassland. Chalk Bluffs Natural Area List of protected grasslands of North America "Pawnee National Grassland". Geographic...
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    upstream into Curecanti National Recreation Area and downstream into Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. The canyon's name owes itself to the fact...
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    exploration of southern Utah by padre Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and padre Francisco Atanasio Domínguez. The padres passed near what is now the Kolob Canyons...
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    wilderness areas within Arapaho National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Four are partially in neighboring National Forests...
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