Weepah Spring Wilderness is a

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

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and Nye Counties, in the

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state of

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, ...

. The Wilderness lies approximately north of the town of Alamo and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.Nevada BLM
- Weepah Spring Wilderness Weepah Spring Wilderness contains Timber Mountain and lies within the

Seaman Range The Seaman Range is a 30-mile (48 km) long mountain range in Lincoln and Nye counties, Nevada, in the western United States. The range lies at the south perimeter of the large north-trending White River Valley, along with Coal Valley to it ...

, an excellent example of a Great Basin mountain range. It lacks a single defined ridgeline and contains isolated peaks, maze-like canyons, walls of fossil bearing rocks,

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es, and

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hoodoos. The Wilderness also has the largest stand of

ponderosa pine ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the ...

in eastern Nevada and 4,000-year-old rock art.

Archeology

Within the Weepah Springs Wilderness is the White River Narrows Archaeological District, listed on the

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. The district encompasses one of the largest and most well-known concentrations of

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

in Nevada. Other prehistoric sites in the District include shelter caves, hunting blinds, and campsites.

References

External links

Nevada Bureau of Land Management
- Weepah Spring Wilderness fact sheet
Friends of Nevada Wilderness
- Weepah Spring Wilderness
Nevada Bureau of Land Management
- Weepah Spring Wilderness map {{authority control Wilderness areas of Nevada Protected areas of Lincoln County, Nevada Protected areas of Nye County, Nevada Bureau of Land Management areas in Nevada Protected areas of the Great Basin Protected areas established in 2004 2004 establishments in Nevada

Archeology

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