created not only the West Malpais Wilderness, but also created the 231,230 acre El Malpais National Conservation Area, the El Malpais National Monument,...

The El Malpais National Conservation Area is a federally protected conservation area in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The El Malpais National Conservation...

Wilderness Uncompahgre Wilderness High Uintas Wilderness Weminuche Wilderness West Malpais Wilderness Other notable protected areas include: Barringer Crater, Dead...

Cebolla Wilderness is a 61,600-acre (24,900 ha) Wilderness area located within the El Malpais National Conservation Area in New Mexico. The area was added...

El Malpais National Monument is a National Monument located in western New Mexico, in the Southwestern United States. The name El Malpais is from the Spanish...

Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924. Along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, the 558...

The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha) wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in...

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...

development and subdivision by conservation easements. Malpai is an Americanization of the Spanish word malpaís, which can be translated as bad lands. The word...

Chanchelulla Wilderness is an 8,062-acre (3,263 ha) wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in the U.S. state of...

and 1250 A.D. Other key sites are the El Morro National Monument and El Malpais National Monument. A great portion of the land in northwestern New Mexico...

Trilobite Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Marble Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert in northeastern San Bernardino County, California. It is...

the wilderness area. Nearby wilderness areas of the southern Los Padres National Forest include the Matilija Wilderness (west) and Chumash Wilderness (northwest)...

The Desolation Wilderness is a 63,960-acre (258.8 km2) federally protected wilderness area in the Eldorado National Forest and Lake Tahoe Basin Management...

five wilderness areas within the Sierra National Forest and is managed by the US Forest Service. The Kaiser Wilderness stretches along an east–west ridge...

Mountains and 18 miles (29 km) west of Needles, California, along Interstate 40 as its northern border. The wilderness covers approximately 14,645 acres...

Maturango Peak (8,839 ft or 2,694 m) towering to the west of Panamint Valley. The Argus Range Wilderness, under the administration of the Bureau of Land Management...

The Hoover Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Inyo and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests. It lies to the east of the crest of the central Sierra Nevada...

approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Morongo Valley and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Palm Springs, California. The wilderness is part of the eastern slope...

wildlands, east of the Owens Valley and west of the Eureka Valley. There are three separate units of the wilderness, separated by vehicle corridors, with...

the west The wilderness area extends from just west of the summit of Mount Pinos (8,831 ft; 2,692 m) to Cerro Noroeste (Mount Abel) to the west, and...

Mountains Wilderness is located about 25 miles west of Brawley, California, and southeast of the Vallecito Mountains in the United States. The wilderness is...

The Ventana Wilderness of Los Padres National Forest is a federally designated wilderness area located in the Santa Lucia Range along the Central Coast...

is an Americanization of the Spanish word malpaís, which can be translated as bad terrain. The term malpaís is widely used to refer to badlands characterized...

values. It is located west of Inyokern and 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Bakersfield. There are 88,290 acres (357.3 km2) of wilderness and 702 acres (2.84 km2)...

Monument (or Misty Fiords National Monument) is a national monument and wilderness area administered by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the Tongass National...

above Drake's Bay. About half of the national seashore is protected as wilderness. The Point Reyes peninsula is a well defined area, geologically separated...

(1,370 square miles (3,500 km2)) as the Olympic Wilderness, which was renamed Daniel J. Evans Wilderness in honor of the former Washington state Governor...

Wilderness is a 29,855 acres (120.82 km2) area in San Miguel County, New Mexico. The US Bureau of Land Management owns and administers the wilderness...

Stonyford. The forest includes four wilderness areas: Sanhedrin Wilderness - 10,571 acres (42.78 km2) Snow Mountain Wilderness — 60,076 acres (243.12 km2) Yolla...