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The Marble Mountain Wilderness is a 241,744-acre (978.30 km 2) [3] wilderness area located 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Yreka, California, in the United States. It is managed by the United States Forest Service and is within the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County . [ 1 ]
The term "Marble Mountains" is commonly applied not only to the ridges of Marble Mountain and Black Marble Mountain themselves but as a name for the northwestern ranges of the Salmon Mountains. [ 3 ] The 242,500-acre (981 km 2 ) Marble Mountain Wilderness [ 4 ] is a forested area and contains 89 lakes stocked with trout.
The Marble Mountains are located just north of Cadiz, California, and are south of Bristol Dry Lake and Amboy, California. The Old Woman Mountains are to the east, and Bullion Mountains to the west. The Sheep Hole Mountains and Twentynine Palms, California are to the southeast.
Ukonom Lake is a reservoir in western Siskiyou County, California, located in the Marble Mountain Wilderness at an elevation of 6,060 feet (1,847 m). [1] [2] Covering 67 acres (27 ha), it is the largest body of water in the Marble Mountain Wilderness when measured by surface area; however, being relatively shallow, it is not the largest by volume.
Wooley Creek is a large stream in Siskiyou County, California, a tributary of the Salmon River.Wooley Creek flows 22 miles (35 km) [1] from Man Eaten Lake [2] in the Marble Mountain Wilderness of the Klamath National Forest, in a generally southwest direction, to its confluence with the Salmon River about 4 miles (6.4 km) upstream of the Salmon's confluence with the Klamath River at Somes Bar. [3]
The Trilobite Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Marble Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert in northeastern San Bernardino County, California.It is named for the large number of trilobite fossils that can be found within its boundaries.
Slover Mountain (Mount Slover, Marble Mountain) is a former [2] mountain in Colton, in southwestern San Bernardino County and the Inland Empire region of Southern California. Now a hill, it was surface mined for limestone in the 20th century. [2] The Colton Joint Unified School District's continuation high school is named after the mountain. [3]
The Klamath system are of the Pacific Coast Ranges series of mountain range systems that stretch along the West Coast of North America. The Salmon range is within sections of the Klamath National Forest , Shasta-Trinity National Forest , and Six Rivers National Forest and includes portions of the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area, Russian Wilderness ...