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[1]: 3 A common characteristic of plants in this community is a very deep and extensive root system, which helps stabilize the sand dunes, or an ability to adjust to the shifting sands. [1]: 3 In the Glen Canyon area, it can be found in lower elevation mesas, canyons, and terraces to 4,500 feet (1,400 m) in elevation. [4]
The Roosevelt National Forest began on May 22, 1902 as part of the Medicine Bow Forest Reserve. It was renamed the Colorado National Forest in 1910, and was renamed to honor President Theodore Roosevelt in 1932. [1] The forest has a total area of 813,799 acres (1,271.56 sq mi, or 3,293.33 km 2). [2]
The Indian Peaks Wilderness is a 73,931 acre wilderness area in north central Colorado managed jointly by the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service within the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and small parts of the southern section of Rocky Mountain National Park. It includes over 50 lakes, 28 trails, and numerous ...
The main plant communities, or zones, are woodlands, mountain woodlands, and grassland and shrub. The woodland zone, or pinyon-juniper woodland, covers the largest area.. It consists of open woodlands of short trees, mostly pinyon pine (Pinus edulis throughout the ecoregion, and Pinus monophylla subsp. fallax in the southwestern portion of the ecoregion) and species of juniper (Juniperus spp
Aiken Canyon Preserve is a 1,621-acre (6.56 km 2) Nature Conservancy-managed state property in Colorado.It was first observed and named after Charles Aiken, a 19th-century U.S. surveyor, pioneer, and ornithologist who first surveyed the region in the 1870s and identified more than 75 bird species. [1]
Grays Peak is the tenth-highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America and the U.S. state of Colorado.The prominent 14,276-foot (4351.18 m) fourteener is the highest summit of the Front Range and the highest point on the Continental Divide and the Continental Divide Trail in North America.
The Colorado state wildlife areas are managed for hunting, fishing, observation, management, and preservation of wildlife. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife division of the U.S. State of Colorado manages more than 300 state wildlife areas with a total area of more than 860 square miles (2,230 km 2 ) in the state.
South Table Mountain is a mesa on the eastern flank of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Castle Rock, the 6,338-foot (1,932 m) summit of the mesa, is located on private property in Jefferson County, Colorado, 0.56 miles (0.9 km) directly east (bearing 90°) of downtown Golden. [1] [2] [3]