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Overlay of Wild Horse and Bureau Herd Management Areas on National Landscape Conservation System Units Pryor Mountain Murderers Creek McCullough Peaks Liggett Table Challis Fifteenmile Three Fingers Paisley Desert Kiger Sand Springs South Steens Sheepshead-Heath Creek Coyote Lake-Alvord-Tule Springs Pokegama Beatys Butte Antelope Hills Divide Basin Bitner Owyhee Lost Creek Black Rock Range West High Rock Little Owyhee Calico Mountains Jackson Mountains Snowstorm Mountains Adobe Town Buffalo Hills Salt Wells Creek Twin Peaks Lava Beds Fox-Lake Range Spruce-Pequop Nightingale Mountains Tobin Range Goshute Cedar Mountain Augusta Mountains Triple B Antelope Clan Alpine South Stillwater Desatoya Range Creek Swasey Seven Mile Conger Little Book Cliffs Pancake Kingtop Pilot Mountain Sinbad Muddy Creek Silver King Hot Creek Stone Cabin Canyon Lands Eagle Choke Cherry Reveille Silver Peak Spring Creek Basin Piper Mountain Gold Mountain Waucoba-Hunter Mountain Lee Flat Johnnie Centennial Ash Meadows Wheeler Pass Gold Butte Chicago Valley Red Rock Muddy Mountains El Dorado Mountains Cerbat Mountain Black Mountain Big Sandy Chemehuevi Alamo Havasu Bordo Atravesado Lake Pleasant Palm Canyon Cibola-Trigo Chocolate-Mule Mountains 0 100 200 400 Miles Wild Horse & Burro Herd Management Area Some Herd Management Areas that contain NLCS lands are labeled (see table). No warranty is made by the Bureau of Land Management for the use of the data for puposes not intended by the BLM. National Landscape Conservation System United States Department of the Interior Monument, NCA and similar designation Bureau of Land Management Map produced 12/16/2009 Wilderness and WSA Approximately 5,200,00 acres of Herd Management Areas are affected. See accompanying table for details. Overlay of Herd Management Areas and National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) Units Herd Management Area Overlapping NLCS Unit Acres of Overlap* Adobe Town Wilderness or WSA 88090 Alamo Wilderness or WSA 97840 Antelope Wilderness or WSA 18115 Antelope Hills Wilderness or WSA 56 Antelope Valley Wilderness or WSA 310 Ash Meadows Wilderness or WSA 4341 Augusta Mountains Wilderness or WSA 87090 Beatys Butte Wilderness or WSA 183652 Big Sory Wilderness or WSA 72138 Bitner Wilderness or WSA 83903 Black Mountain Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 3441 Black Mountain Wilderness or WSA 164729 Black Rock Range East Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 23518 Black Rock Range East Wilderness or WSA 24547 Black Rock Range West Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 67155 Black Rock Range West Wilderness or WSA 53827 Bordo Atravesado Wilderness or WSA 7871 Buckhorn Wilderness or WSA 16221 Buffalo Hills Wilderness or WSA 213768 Calico Mountains Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 122670 Calico Mountains Wilderness or WSA 103631 Canyon Lors Wilderness or WSA 52319 Cedar Mountain Wilderness or WSA 85968 Centennial Wilderness or WSA 39242 Cerbat Mountain Wilderness or WSA 16829 Challis Wilderness or WSA 74147 Chemehuevi Wilderness or WSA 67598 Chicago Valley Wilderness or WSA 157067 Chocolate-Mule Mountains Wilderness or WSA 73079 Choke Cherry Wilderness or WSA 3760 Cibola-Trigo Wilderness or WSA 35767 Clan Alpine Wilderness or WSA 165891 Conger Wilderness or WSA 21429 Coyote Lake-Alvord-Tule Springs Wilderness or WSA 378804 Herd Management Area Overlapping NLCS Unit Acres of Overlap* Desatoya Wilderness or WSA 27833 Divide Basin Wilderness or WSA 97758 Eagle Wilderness or WSA 95953 El Dorado Mountains Wilderness or WSA 8932 Fifteenmile Wilderness or WSA 16483 Fox Hog Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 16971 Fox Hog Wilderness or WSA 16866 Fox-Lake Range Wilderness or WSA 80960 Gold Butte Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 1 Gold Butte Wilderness or WSA 50377 Gold Mountain Wilderness or WSA 36340 Goshute Wilderness or WSA 124275 Havasu Wilderness or WSA 20151 High Rock Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 94438 High Rock Wilderness or WSA 91961 Hot Creek Wilderness or WSA 15188 Jackson Mountains Wilderness or WSA 78937 Johnnie Wilderness or WSA 1069 Kamma Mountains Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 3836 Kiger Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 6843 Kingtop Wilderness or WSA 81845 Lake Pleasant Wilderness or WSA 10615 Lava Beds Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 4436 Lava Beds Wilderness or WSA 3614 Lee Flat Wilderness or WSA 30574 Liggett Table Wilderness or WSA 19019 Little Book Cliffs Wilderness or WSA 22735 Little Fish Lake Wilderness or WSA 3 Little Humboldt Wilderness or WSA 5848 Little Owyhee Wilderness or WSA 69179 Lost Creek Wilderness or WSA 5 Massacre Lakes Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 904 Massacre Lakes Wilderness or WSA 61707 Maverick-Medicine Wilderness or WSA 19 McCullough Peaks Wilderness or WSA 11850 Muddy Creek Wilderness or WSA 34314 Muddy Mountains Wilderness or WSA 18218 Herd Management Area Overlapping NLCS Unit Acres of Overlap* Murderers Creek Wilderness or WSA 1323 Nevada Wild Horse Range Wilderness or WSA 186 Nightingale Mountains Wilderness or WSA 250 North Stillwater Wilderness or WSA 8781 Nut Mountain Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 11940 Nut Mountain Wilderness or WSA 3675 Owyhee Wilderness or WSA 15456 Paisley Desert Wilderness or WSA 11497 Palm Canyon Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 10170 Pancake Wilderness or WSA 31328 Pilot Mountain Wilderness or WSA 71718 Piper Mountain Wilderness or WSA 63996 Pokegama Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 2658 Pokegama Wilderness or WSA 888 Pryor Mountain Wilderness or WSA 18703 Range Creek Wilderness or WSA 17066 Red Rock Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 94440 Red Rock Wilderness or WSA 40539 Reveille Wilderness or WSA 59079 Riddle Mountain Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 28234 Riddle Mountain Wilderness or WSA 14938 Rock Creek Wilderness or WSA 32 Salt Wells Creek Wilderness or WSA 585 Sor Springs Wilderness or WSA 120619 Seven Mile Wilderness or WSA 23149 Sheepshead-Heath Creek Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 7850 Sheepshead-Heath Creek Wilderness or WSA 160630 Silver King Wilderness or WSA 869 Silver Peak Wilderness or WSA 34803 Sinbad Wilderness or WSA 37971 Snowstorm Mountains Wilderness or WSA 35309 South Steens Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 120554 South Steens Wilderness or WSA 103143 South Stillwater Wilderness or WSA 9707 Spring Creek Basin Wilderness or WSA 6221 Spruce-Pequop Wilderness or WSA 40250 Stone Cabin Wilderness or WSA 68318 Herd Management Area Overlapping NLCS Unit Acres of Overlap* Swasey Wilderness or WSA 59087 Three Fingers Wilderness or WSA 40017 Tobin Range Wilderness or WSA 23348 Triple B Wilderness or WSA 35472 Twin Peaks Wilderness or WSA 574118 Wall Canyon Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 11058 Wall Canyon Wilderness or WSA 10676 Warm Springs Canyon Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 33209 Warm Springs Canyon Wilderness or WSA 9448 Waucoba-Hunter Mountain Wilderness or WSA 18066 Wheeler Pass Monument, NCA or Similar Designation 79426 Wheeler Pass Wilderness or WSA 10794 TOTAL 5,183,263* * Though the acreage in this table totals 6,050,462 acres of HMA overlap with NLCS units, the actual overlap is 5,183,263 acres because NLCS units occasionally overlap each other, i.e., a Monument may exist in a Wilderness Study Area. .
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