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Wilderness Areas • Rocky Mountain Region Commemorating 50 Years of Wilderness Stewardship, 1964-2014 Wilderness Areas • Rocky Mountain Region Commemorating 50 Years of Wilderness Stewardship, 1964-2014 Absaroka-Beartooth North Absaroka Cloud Peak Wilderness Cloud Peak PIERRE Has 140 miles of trails and 55 miles of fishing streams Washakie Black Elk Fitzpatrick Wilderness Fitzpatrick South Dakota Home to one of the largest bighorn sheep herds in North America and the most glaciers in the lower 48 states Popo Agie Soldier Creek Six Region 2 Forest Service areas Wyoming in Colorado and Wyoming were designated as wilderness in 1964 with Nebraska passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (Public Law 88-577): La Garita, Maroon Bells-Snowmass, Rawah, Mt. Zirkel, Encampment West Elk in Colorado and the Washakie Huston Park River Savage Run CHEYENNE Platte River and North Absaroka in Wyoming (shown in blue). Mount Zirkel Rawah Cache La Poudre Neota Comanche Peak To learn more about wilderness, visit: Never Summer Sarvis Creek Indian Peaks Flat Tops Wilderness Flat Tops www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r2/wilderness Byers Peak James Peak Birthplace of the wilderness concept Vasquez Peak DENVER Eagles Nest Ptarmigan Peak by Arthur Carhart to leave Trapper’s Mount Evans www.wilderness.net Holy Cross Lake undeveloped Mt. Massive Lost Creek MaroonBells-Snowmass Hunter-Fryingpan www.wilderness50th.org Raggeds Buffalo Peaks Collegiate Peaks West Elk Fossil Ridge Colorado Kansas Uncompahgre Mount Sneffels Powderhorn La Garita Lizard Head Sangre de Cristo Greenhorn Mountain Weminuche Wilderness Weminuche Largest wilderness in Colorado, 488,210 acres Spanish Peaks and headwaters of Rio Grande River, South San Juan 3rd longest river in U.S. Wilderness Areas 20% 4.5 million Rocky Mountain Region acres 24 million acres 46 Wilderness areas in four states — Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska (no Wilderness in Kansas) One out of five Wilderness Year Designated Acres Forest(s) Wilderness Year Designated Acres Forest(s) acres in the Colorado Colorado cont’d Rocky Mountain Region Buffalo Peaks 1993 43,410 Pike-San Isabel NF Sangre de Cristo 1993 219,750 PSINF/RGNF are Wilderness Byers Peak 1993 8,913 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF Sarvis Creek 1993 45,190 Routt NF acres (20%) Cache La Poudre 1980 9,238 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF South San Juan 1980 158,790 RGNF/SJNF Collegiate Peaks 1980 166,938 GMUG/Pike/WRNF Spanish Peaks 2000 19,343 Pike-San Isabel NF Comanche Peak 1980 66,791 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF Uncompahgre 1980 99,331 GMUG NF Eagles Nest 1976 132,906 White River NF Vasquez Peak 1993 12,986 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF Flat Tops 1975 235,214 White River/Routt NF Weminuche 1975 488,210 RGNF/SJNF Fossil Ridge 1993 31,534 GMUG *West Elk 1964 176,172 GMUG NF Greenhorn Mountain 1993 23,087 Pike-San Isabel NF Holy Cross 1980 122,797 Pike-San Isabel/WRNF Nebraska Hunter-Fryingpan 1978 82,026 White River/Routt NF Soldier Creek 1986 7,794 Nebraska NF Indian Peaks 1978 70,374 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF James Peak 2002 14,000 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF *La Garita 1964 129,626 GMUG/Rio Grande NF South Dakota Black Elk 1980 9,826 Black Hills NF Lizard Head 1980 41,309 GMUG/San Juan NF Lost Creek 1980 119,790 Pike-San Isabel NF *Maroon Bells-Snowmass 1964 181,602 WRNF/GMUG Wyoming Mount Evans 1980 74,401 ARNF/PSI NF Absaroka-Beartooth 1978 22,283 Shoshone NF Mount Massive 1980 27,980 Pike-San Isabel NF Cloud Peak 1984 189,039 Bighorn NF Mount Sneffels 1980 16,566 GMUG Encampment River 1984 10,124 Medicine Bow NF *Mount Zirkel 1964 159,935 Routt NF Fitzpatrick 1976 198,525 Shoshone NF Neota 1980 9,924 Arapaho-Roosevelt/Routt NF Huston Park 1984 30,588 Medicine Bow NF Never Summer 1980 20,747 Arapaho-Roosevelt/Routt NF *North Absaroka 1964 350,488 Shoshone NF Powderhorn 1993 13,395 GMUG Platte River 1984 23,492 Medicine Bow NF Ptarmigan Peak 1993 12,594 Arapaho-Roosevelt NF Popo Agie 1984 101,870 Shoshone NF Raggeds 1980 64,992 White River/GMUG NF Savage Run 1978 14,927 Medicine Bow NF *Rawah 1964 73,068 ARNF/Routt NF *Washakie 1964 704,274 Shoshone NF * Areas designated by Congress in 1964 (Public Law 88-577).
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