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The Schulman grove of Bristlecone pines. Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; Boundary Peak, the highest ...
Casa Vieja Guard Station, Golden Trout Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, Mount Whitney Ranger District, circa 1976. Built in 1959. History. In the 1920s and 1930s, Forest Service employees often traveled many miles from local ranger stations to forest work sites. Since the forest road networks were not well developed, getting to a job site ...
Camp Clover Ranger Station. Canelo Ranger Station. Cayton Guard Station. Cedar Guard Station No. 1019. Chatter Creek Guard Station. Clackamas Lake Ranger Station Historic District. College Creek Ranger Station. Columbine Work Station. Crown King Ranger Station.
Minaret Summit. / 37.65639°N 119.06028°W / 37.65639; -119.06028. Minaret Summit is a mountain pass on Highway 203 in the central Sierra Nevada. [ 2] The pass, lying on the Madera-Mono County border, is within the Mammoth Ranger District of the Inyo National Forest and located near Devils Postpile National Monument, Mammoth Lakes, and ...
January 1, 1964. Governing body. U.S. Forest Service. The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California for 90 miles (140 km), in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. [2] Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it encompasses 652,793 acres (2,641. ...
Inyo National Forest protects the eastern slope of the southern Sierra. The southern part of the forest, along the western edge of Owens Valley , is characterized by a precipitous drop from the Sierra crest, reaching up to 14,505 feet (4,421 m) at its highest point at Mount Whitney , down to the valley floor at 4,000 feet (1,200 m) to 5,000 ...
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres (780,000 km 2) of land. [5] The major divisions of the agency are the Chief's Office, National Forest System, State and Private Forestry, Business ...
Kings Canyon National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California. Originally established in 1890 as General Grant National Park, the park was greatly expanded and renamed on March 4, 1940. The park's namesake, Kings Canyon, is a rugged glacier -carved valley more than a ...