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The Kiavah Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the Mojave Desert, Scodie Mountains, and Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in Kern County, California, United States. State Highway 178 connects the town of Lake Isabella, California to state Highway 14 in the east, crossing Walker Pass at the north boundary of the wilderness. The Kiavah Wilderness was created in 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433), is jointly managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and is mostly within the Sequoia National Forest. This wilderness is part of the National Cooperative Land and Wildlife Management Area and the BLM's Jawbone-Butterbredt Area of Critical Environmental Concern, which was designated to protect critical wildlife and Native American values. ==Geography== It is located west of Inyokern, California and northeast of Bakersfield, California. There are 〔(Sequoia NF Wilderness page )〕 of wilderness with partially roaded nonwilderness.〔Adkinson, Ron ''Wild Northern California''. The Globe Pequot Press, 2001〕 Located on a broad plateau rising immediately south of the Walker Pass in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, are the Scodie Mountains. The highest peaks are Skinner Peak (7,073 ft〔(United States Geological Survey (USGS) Feature Detail Report )〕) in the south and Pinyon Peak (6,768 ft〔(USGS Feature Detail Report )〕) in the north. Many canyons cut through the flanks of the plateau except in the north which has an abrupt escarpment.〔 Three seasonal springs flow from the slope of the plateau; Yellowjacket, McIvers and Willow Springs. Other springs flow from the canyon folds. 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「Kiavah Wilderness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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