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The Dardanelles and Freel Roadless Areas are located and south of Lake Tahoe, California respectively, and both are managed by the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the US Forest Service.These areas are contiguous, separated only by the corridor of highway 89. The historic Hawley Grade, an immigrant wagon road, now a hiking trail, is within the Dardanelles Roadless Area, as well as the watershed of Lake Tahoe's largest inflow, the Upper Truckee River. The Freel Roadless Area is named for Freel Peak, the highest point in both the Lake Tahoe Basin and the Carson Range. Freel Peak supports one of the few areas of alpine cushion plants this far north in the Sierra Nevada /Carson Range. Both the Pacific Crest Trail and the Tahoe Rim Trail pass through these roadless areas. A "roadless area" is the designation for backcountry, undeveloped lands having wilderness attributes as specified in the Wilderness Act of 1964 and that could be considered for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. These lands were formally inventoried in the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation process (RARE II) and managed under the land management plans of the US Forest Service. On Jan. 12, 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule was established. This rule set national guidelines limiting backcountry timber harvest and road construction and reconstruction with a goal of upholding the roadless characteristics found on millions of acres of inventoried roadless areas. It allowed reasonable exceptions for management activities like fire suppression and other public health safety measures, and permitted projects, such as mining, with valid existing rights to proceed.〔Federal Register, Final Rule, Part VI, PDF document p.11〕 At the same time, the national roadless rule attempted to conserve fish and wildlife habitat while not closing any existing access to these lands.〔(A Short History of Inventoried Roadless Areas. )〕 ==Dardanelles Roadless Area== This set aside is managed as a nonwilderness, nonmotorized roadless recreation area and is second only to nearby Desolation Wilderness in popularity in the Lake Tahoe region. Often called "Meiss Country" after the local ranching family whose historic Meiss cabin, built in 1878, still stands in the Upper Truckee Basin area.〔Adkinson, Ron p 162〕 Lake Tahoe and its primary inflow, the Upper Truckee River, occupy a basin that is between the split crest of the Sierra Nevada Range, with the eastern crest extending north to become the Carson Range and the main crest heading northwest.〔Hill, Mary p 387〕 The Upper Truckee River headwaters begin in a thick assemblege of volcanic rock at Stevens Peak. The Dardanelles Roadless Area's highest features are Stevens (10,043 ft)〔(Geographical Names Information System, US Geological Survey )〕 and Red Lake peaks (10,060 ft).〔(Geographical Names Information System, US Geological Survey )〕 These peaks are the highest in northern California that are composed of mudflow breccia (conglomerate). Stevens Peak was named in 1889 for J. M. Stevens, a local county supervisor who operated a stage coach station in nearby Hope Valley in the 1860s.〔Gudde, Erwin ''California Place Names...'' p.375〕 The area has subalpine meadows, lodgepole pine stands, krummholtz (German for "twisted wood") mats of whitebark pine and stratified volcanic peaks and ridges.〔 The Pacific Crest Trail traverses the area between Carson Pass and Echo Summit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dardanelles and Freel Roadless Areas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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