The Fossil Ridge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located approximately 16 miles (26 km) northeast of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison National Forest...
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Angeles Fossil Ridge Wilderness in Gunnison County, Colorado A ridge containing the Walcott Quarry, Yoho National Park, Canada; notable for fossils in the...
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Wilderness Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Comanche Peak Wilderness Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Eagles Nest Wilderness Flat Tops Wilderness Fossil Ridge Wilderness...
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the Fossil Ridge Wilderness, which is managed by the Gunnison National Forest. The pass is at an elevation of 12,185 feet (3,714 m)) on a ridge connecting...
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Collegiate Peaks Wilderness Fossil Ridge Wilderness Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Powderhorn Wilderness Raggeds Wilderness Uncompahgre Wilderness West Elk...
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which allows non-commercial personal collection of invertebrate fossils within the wilderness area. In the early Cambrian fossiliferous sediments from a shallow...
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America. The 13,261-foot (4,042 m) thirteener is located in the Fossil Ridge Wilderness of Gunnison National Forest, 7.8 miles (12.5 km) northwest (bearing...
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Gunnison National Forest (section Wilderness areas)
Collegiate Peaks Wilderness (the largest part in San Isabel NF; partly in White River NF) Fossil Ridge Wilderness La Garita Wilderness (partly in Rio Grande...
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Badlands National Park (redirect from Badlands Wilderness)
drainage, the Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km2) of the park's North Unit as a designated wilderness area, and is one site...
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the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness of the Colorado Plateau. The area is administered by the Bureau of Land...
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species. Some of the exposed rocks contain compressed layers of fossils. Rocky Ridge reaches an elevation of 2,024 feet (617 m). At the 1,760 feet (540 m)...
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Highland Ridge Wilderness is a 68,627-acre (27,772 ha) wilderness area in the southern part of the Snake Range of White Pine County, just south of Great...
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The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local...
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Mogollon Plateau (section Wilderness areas)
parallel creeks to Fossil Creek of the Fossil Springs Wilderness, are the West Clear Creek Wilderness, and the Wet Beaver Wilderness. Intermontane Plateaus...
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The Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness (BRCW) is located in western Colorado with a small portion extending into eastern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado...
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The Weminuche Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the United States Forest Service as part of the San Juan National Forest...
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Peak. It contains the Sheep Mountain Wilderness, the San Gabriel Wilderness, and Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness. Most of the major peaks of the San Gabriels...
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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 land...
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Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort is a large water resort in Lake Delton, Wisconsin. It is one of the largest indoor waterpark complexes[citation needed]...
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The Mt. Rose Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Carson Range of Washoe County, in the northwesternU.S. state of Nevada. It is located between...
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isolated peaks, maze-like canyons, walls of fossil bearing rocks, natural arches, and volcanic hoodoos. The Wilderness also has the largest stand of ponderosa...
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the ridge was much easier than through the swampy lowlands. The region adjacent to the ridge is covered with thick deltaic soils, and few fossils are...
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scenery to the Blue Ridge Parkway of the Appalachian Mountains. Beavers Bend State Park Black Fork Mountain Wilderness Caney Creek Wilderness Cossatot River...
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in Congress since passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act." In 2016, the SUWA stated that the UPLI "promote[d] fossil fuel development, motorized recreation...
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The Mount Charleston Wilderness Area is located west of Las Vegas in the southern part of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It was created...
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La Madre Mountain Wilderness Area consists of 47,180 acres (19,090 ha) covering a part of Clark County, Nevada, that lies just west of the city of Las...
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edge of the wilderness. This craggy block of tilted sedimentary carbonate rock exposes the underlying strata along the west side of the ridge. This fault...
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The Gunnison Gorge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located immediately northwest of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, in Colorado....
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Jimbilnan Wilderness is an 18,879 acre (7,640 ha) wilderness area that starts from the northeast side of the Black Mountains and extends eastward towards...
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The Rawah Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest in...
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