Image: Inyo Mountain Wilderness
Description: Managed by the BLM and U.S. Forest Service - Inyo National Forest, this wilderness encompasses a large portion of the Inyo Mountains, which rise to 11,000 feet at Keynot Peak and separates the Owens Valley on the west and Saline Valley on the east. These mountains have maintained most of their pristine character due to the sheer ruggedness of the terrain. Evidence of historic and prehistoric man's use of the area has been found. Vegetation includes creosote, shadscale scrub, big sagebrush, lush riparian areas in most of the canyons on the eastern slope and pinyon-juniper woodland, bristlecone and limber pine on the higher reaches. Wildlife include desert bighorn sheep and the Inyo Mountain salamander.
Title: Inyo Mountain Wilderness
Credit: https://www.facebook.com/blmcalifornia/photos/a.381118831912797.90344.121009507923732/929928407031834/
Author: BLM photo by Bob Wick.
Permission: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is a work of a Bureau of Land Management* employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States. *or predecessor organization
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