The Dominguez–Escalante 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. Dominguez–Escalante National Conservation Area Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area McInnis...
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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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Colorado. Dominguez–Escalante National Conservation Area Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area The Bureau...
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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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Mesa County, Colorado (redirect from Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area)
National Monument Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (part) Grand Mesa National Forest Manti-La Sal National Forest...
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Montrose County, Colorado (redirect from Montrose, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area)
Gunnison National Park Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wilderness Curecanti National Recreation Area (part) Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area (part)...
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Colorado Plateau shrublands (section Protected areas)
Canyon–Parashant National Monument, Dominguez–Escalante National Conservation Area, Petrified Forest National Park, and El Malpais National Conservation Area. The...
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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 Domínguez–Escalante 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 Domínguez–Escalante expedition. Later, Mormon explorers searched the region during the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Iron County, Utah (redirect from Cedar City, Utah micropolitan area)
which is headquartered in Cedar City. The Domínguez–Escalante expedition traveled through the Iron County area on October 12, 1776. Fur trapper Jedediah...
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Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness (redirect from Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area)
documented Europeans in the area were Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante of the Domínguez–Escalante expedition. The expedition...
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The Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area is a 62,844-acre (254.32 km2) National Conservation Area located in west-central Colorado near Montrose...
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the area in 1765, followed in 1776 by the Domínguez–Escalante expedition. Fur trappers, also called mountain men, of European descent entered the area to...
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Mosquito mountain ranges provide perspective and a sense of permanence to the area. Several signs along the way provide historical snippets about Leadville's...
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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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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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Walker Tract Escalante State Wildlife Area - Hamilton Tract Escalante State Wildlife Area - Harrison Tract Escalante State Wildlife Area - Lower Roubideau...
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes on the eastern edge of the San Luis...
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are six officially designated wilderness areas lying within Arapaho National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Four of...
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