The Little Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern Riverside County, California. The range lies southeast of the

Chuckwalla Mountains The Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in the transition zone between the Colorado Desert—Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert, climatically and vegetationally, in Riverside County of southern California. Geography The range spans abou ...

, north of the Chocolate Mountains and south of

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Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness

The Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness was established in 1994 by the U.S. Congress and consists of 28,052 acres managed by the

Bureau of Land Management The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Washington DC, and with oversight over , it governs one eighth of the country's la ...

. This desert wilderness area protects the dry and rugged mountain range that rises to 2,100 feet (640 m). It is mostly in Riverside County with a small portion in

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. The area is habitat for desert bighorn sheep and the desert tortoise. Local vegetation includes California snakeweed, Alverson's foxtail cactus and the barrel cactus.Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
- BLM.

References

Mountain ranges of Southern California Mountain ranges of Riverside County, California Wilderness areas of California

External links

Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
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