|
The Piper Mountain Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the White Mountains northeast of Big Pine, California in Inyo County, California. The Wilderness Area was created by the 1994 California Desert Protection Act, and encompasses of Great Basin wildlands, east of the Owens Valley and west of the Eureka Valley.〔(Text of bill from Library of Congress website ) accessed 9-4-08〕 ==Geography== There are three separate units of the wilderness, separated by vehicle corridors, with elevations from to .〔http://www.blm.gov/ca/pa/wilderness/wa/areas/piper_mountain.html〕 The landscape is characterized by steep mountains, narrow canyons, sloping alluvial fans and level floodplains. It includes a subrange of the Inyo Mountains called the Chocolate Mountains, a northwestern section of the Last Chance Range and the upper end of Eureka Valley which is immediately north of Death Valley National Park. The highest peaks of the wilderness are in the Chocolate Mountains and include Mount Nunn (7,815 feet〔(United States Geological Survey(USGS) Feature Detail Report )〕) and Lime Hill (6,532 feet〔(USGS Feature Detail Report )〕). The wilderness's namesake Piper Mountain (labeled 'Chocolate Mountain' on topo maps) rises to an elevation of .〔(USGS Feature Detail Report )〕 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「Piper Mountain Wilderness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|