The Onaqui Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern
Tooele County
Tooele County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 58,218. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year.
Tooele County ...
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Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
United States.
Description
The range is part of a continuous range with the
Stansbury Mountains and
Sheeprock Mountains. The highest point is Stookey Benchmark, which reaches 9,020 feet.
Rush Valley
Rush Valley is a long north-trending valley in the southeast of Tooele County, Utah. It lies adjacent to and attached to the south of Tooele Valley; the separation point is the low point of the valley at Rush Lake, and lies at the southeast o ...
is on the east side of the range and
Skull Valley is to the west.
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 ...
administers the Onaqui Mountains
Herd Management Area
Herd Management Areas (HMA) are lands under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that are managed for the primary but not exclusive benefit of free-roaming "wild" horses and burros. While these animals are technic ...
, a home to 450 wild horses. Horses have been in the area since the late 1800s, mostly from local ranch stock. There was concern that genetic variability of the herd was critically low, so horses from other HMAs were added to the herd. The goal was to improve adoptability by selecting for size, color and improved conformation.
See also
*
List of mountain ranges of Utah
The named mountain ranges of Utah.
Alphabetical
* Abajo Mountains
* Antelope Range (Iron County, Utah)
* Antelope Range (Juab County, Utah)
* Antelope Range (Sevier County, Utah)
* Aquarius Plateau, (''* Boulder Mountain'')
* Bear River Mo ...
References
External links
Mountain ranges of Tooele County, Utah
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Utah
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