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There are the BLM Winnemucca office in Winnemucca, Nevada and the BLM Surprise Valley office in Cedarville, California. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Information is also available from The Friends of Black Rock High Rock, a 501(c)(3) organization, which helps manage the resources of the Black Rock Desert and High Rock regions, educates the public to foster ...
Bureau of Land Management Avi Kwa Ame National Monument ( / ə ˌ v iː k w ə ˈ ɑː m eɪ / ə-VEE kwə AH-may ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Mojave : ʔaviː kʷaʔame , "highest mountain", from ʔaviː , "mountain, rock", and ʔamay , "up, above") [ 3 ] [ 4 ] is a national monument that protects approximately 506,000 acres (2,050 km 2 ) of the Mojave ...
The Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways are roads that have been designated by the Bureau of Land Management as scenic byways. Some are also National Scenic Byways or National Forest Scenic Byways. The program was initiated in 1989 and 54 byways have since been designated in the Western United States. [1]
The Bridge Canyon Wilderness is a small wilderness area located in the Newberry Mountains in southern Nevada, United States, in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. [2] It is also within Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. The rock outcrops and caves make this area very striking.
The recreation area, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management, is 24 miles (39 km) east of Austin along U.S. Route 50. [2] The site, at 6,500 feet (2,000 m) above sea level, [3] is on the west edge of the Monitor Valley in the Great Basin. [4]
Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately 704,000 acres (1,100 sq mi; 2,800 km 2) of remote, undeveloped mountains and valleys in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada. [1]
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. national recreation area in Southeastern Nevada and Northwestern Arizona.Operated by the National Park Service, Lake Mead NRA follows the Colorado River corridor from the westernmost boundary of Grand Canyon National Park to just north of the cities of Laughlin, Nevada and Bullhead City, Arizona.
The park is located in a part of Nevada that in prehistoric times was under Lake Lahontan.When the lake had receded lower than the present-day reservoir, by about 23,000 years ago, animals such as camels, horses, rabbits, and squirrels would drink from the river, and some of their fossils have been found about 14 miles (23 km) north of the dam.