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THE CALIFORNIA DESERT WHO MANAGES the DESERT El Centro Field Office Havasu National Wildlife Refuge 1661 S BLM SPECIAL EDITION 1999 EXAMPLES OF AGENCY SIGNS SURFACE MANAGEMENT STATUS DESERT ACCESS GUIDE Amboy BUREAU OF LAND /MANAGEMENT USDA FOREST SERVICE :!()(),000 Stale topographic map showing: Highways, roads and other manmade structures Water features • Contours and elevations in meters Recreation sites • Coverage of former desert access guide #12 Providence Mountains NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR- i \V OF LAND MANAGEMENT CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS Edited and published by the Bureau of Land Management National Applied Resource Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado in (onprMilion wild IIHI Bureau of Land Management ( iililnniid Stair ()(fi(c Plnnimetry partially revised try BLM fr =^s from various source material. Revised information not field checked. Base map prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey. Compiled from USGS 1:24,000 and l:62,500-scale topographic maps dated 1954-1957, and from advance m»j materials. Partic'iVy revised from aerial photographs taker. 1975 and other source data. Revised information not CALIFORNIA STATE field checked. Map edited 1985. VEHICULAR RECREATION AREA Projection and 10,000-meter grid, zone 11: Universal Help protect your public lands by observing posted OHV designations. Watch for OHV signs and read Transverse Mercator. 25,000-foot grid ticks based on them carefully. California coordinate system, zone 5. 1927 North American Datum. For more information contact the BLM, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, California State Park, Land lines are omitted in areas of extensive tract surveys. or California State Motorized Vechicle Recreation Area There may be private inholdings within the boundaries of Office (see back panel for address and phone the National or State reservations shown on this map. numbers). NATIONAL GEODETIC VERTICAL DATUM OF 1929 THIS MAP COMPLIES WITH NATIONAL MAP ACCURACY STANDARDS CONVERSION TABLE DECLINATION DIAGRAM ADJOINING MAPS METERS I FEET 1 2 3 r—-MN 250 820 GN 1 4 5 500 1640 750 2461 6 7 8 1000 3281 The Bureau of Land Management, Fish anfJ Wildlife 1250 4101 \L Service, USDA Forest Service, and National Park 1500 4921 0"17' \ 249 MILS 1 Soda Mountains Service wilderness areas shown on this map were 1750 5741 5 MII.S1 / 2 Ivanpah 2000 6562 derived from the legislative maps, such as the 3 Davis Dam California Desert Protection Act of 1994. For more 4 Newberry Springs 5 Needles information, contact the representative agency. To convert meters to feel UTM grid convergence multiply by 3.2808 (GN) and 1985 magnetic 6 Big Bear Lake declination (MN) 7 Sheep Hole Mtns. To convert feet to meters a1 center of map multiply by 0.3048 Diagram is approximate 8 Parlor FOR SALE BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT CALIFORNIA STATE OFFICE SACRAMENTO, CA 95825 AND U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DENVER, CO 80225 ISBN O-bOT-BMESP-P II 20% 9 780607»942590 TOTAL MCOVSRED FIBER Topographic Map Symbols Primary highway, hard surface ____—— Secondary highway, hard surface Light duty, hard, or aggregate surface = Slirrt'., Dual-, :j.(xlril()rojneriheituta! surface Rough bladed or two-tracked surface Trail (foot, pack, bicycle, or as labeled) £ACX Route marker: Interstate; U.S.; State f J j7 ( j Railroad: standard gage; narrow gage —, ,— —i ,— Bridge; overpass; underpass y ( ' I Tunnel: road; railroad ^_^ _t_}.__£_+_ Built up area; locality; elevation I III • ' 155 Airport; landing field; landing strip JJT —/ __ CALIFORNIA DESERT AREA ACCESS GUIDE National boundary __ _ _ ^__ _ _ _ INDEX TO 1:100,000-SCALE MAPS State boundary County boundary. RED OUTLINE INDICATES PREVIOUS DESERT ACCESS GUIDES National or State reservation boundary, — . — Land grant boundary — „ ,. — U.S. public lands survey; range, township; section Range, township; section line, protracted Power transmission line; pipeline —. .— Dam; dam with lock I 1 '-• Cemetery; building ^Gern j . ^^m Windmill; water well; spring t Mine shaft; adit or cave; mine, quarry; gravel pit ...... n >— X X Campground; picnic area; U.S. location monument. i •*• ^ Ruins; cliff dwelling ! RuIns ! Distorted surface: strip mine, quarry; gravel pit I ™W^SK Contours: index; intermediate; supplementary — Bathymetric contours: index; intermediate /"* Stream, lake: perennial; intermittent Rapids, large and small; falls, large and small. ...... Area to be submerged; marsh, swamp Land subject to controlled inundation Special area boundary —. —,—u_... —.——. —* SPECIAL SYMBOL BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT POINTS OF INTEREST RECREATIONAL SYMBOL BLM recreation area boundary i*. • . — LEGEND National trail; back country, scenic byway. INDEX TO 1:24,000-SCALE MAPS LEGEND LAND STATUS LEGEND (SEE BACKSIDE FOR INFORMATION) Public Lands (Administered by 1 West of Glasgow 17 Siberia Bureau of Land Management) Indian Lands or Reservations State Lands Department of Energy. Campground.... Restrooms Gasoline Station NOTE TO MAP USERS Locked Gate •""• 2 Glasgow 18 East of Siberia The surface and minerals management status overprints are published as general 1 2 3 4 5 8 7 8 Oregon & California Lands (O&C) Military Reservations and Withdrawals Parking Horseback Trail . Telephone 3 Kelso Dunes 19 Brown Buttes Route / Trail Marker planning and management tools. Some of the lands, surface and mineral rights, 4 Fountain Peak 20 Van Winkle Wash Coos Bay Wagon Road (CBWR) . NONE Corps of Engineers Bureau of Reclamation Radio and Air Facilities. Information Scenic Geology .. Fee Are; may have been smew-, -s pr/erbed lands due to the lack of information 5 Colton Well Bureau of Land Management . \338/ National Wildlife Refuges (Administered Power Withdrawals and available to BLM with respect to the nature of acquisition. Tracts less than 40 6 Desert Spring 22 Danby acres are usually omitted because of the map scale. The official land records in 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 NONE NONE Miscellaneous Picnic Area Drinking Water.. Fossil Site 7 Fenner Hills 23 Essex Forest Service IFS264I National Forest by Fish & Wildlife Service) Classifications the respective offices of the Bureau of Land Management or other responsible 8 Goffs 24 Little Piute Mountains Bankhead-Jones Land Use Lands Federal Agency ProtectivProtective , , State, County, City; Wildlife, Park Hiking Point of Interest.. General Store Federal agencies should be checked for up-to-date status on any specific tract 9 West of Budweiser Wa 25 Bagdad SW County \2M NONE of land. Inadequacies in the BLM maps should be reported to the respective 10 Budweiser Wash 26 Amboy Crater National Grasslands (L.U. Lands) Withdrawals l l and Outdoor Recreation Areas . Food Service Lodging 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Interpretive Trail Bureau of Land Management offices from which the maps were obtained. 11 Bighorn Basin 27 Amboy Acquired Lands 12 Van Winkle Spring 28 Cadiz Rock Collecting . Interpretive Sign Group Day Use Area. Public Water Reserves (By Administering Agency) PUBLIC ACCESS 13 West of Blind Hills 29 Cadiz Summit National Parks and Monuments . Patented Lands E 14 Blind Hills 30 Skeleton Pass Historic Site Roads crossing public lands may be travelled by the public unless closed by 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 15 Fenner 31 Old Woman Statue signing or notice by the land management agency. Public lands intervened by " 16 Fenner Spring 32 Painted Rock Wash private lands may not have public access. Permission is required from the private landowner to cross private land, unless access is provided by a Federal, State, or County road, or a BLM road with legal access. WELCOME TO THE CALIFORNIA DESERT WHO MANAGES THE DESERT El Centro Field Office Havasu National Wildlife Refuge 1661 S. 4th Street P.O. Box 3009 Bureau of Land Management (BLM): The El Centro, CA 92243 Needles, CA 92363 Within its 25-million-acre expanse—an area the size of Ohio—lies a land of extreme contrasts. From the relatively high Mojave Desert of Joshua California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) (760) 337-4400 (760) 326-3853 trees and creosote to the lower Colorado Desert of native fan palms, smoke trees and ocotillo, the California Desert offers a multitude of recreational was created by Congress in 1976 and opportunities. Whether you have come to hike or backpack, tour by auto or four-wheel drive, enjoy your off-highway vehicle (OHV), or ride horses or This wilderness is located 28 miles east >m feet and overlooks 300 square miles of Internet: www.ca.blm.gov/elcentro CD Air kj •• Cvy,,• G\:^\P:GG^WG€S-• ^GmGrnGi includes a long-term land use plan for the of Ludlow and south of Interstate 40. pristine desert valley and mountains. Imperial National Wildlife Retfcge mountain bikes, please Tread Lightly! on the desert and Leave No Trace .: your visit. management of public lands. The mission of Contact the Needles Field Office for Needles Field Office P.O. Box 72217 (See map, B-6) Amboy Crater was the BLM is to sustain the health, diversity additional directions to this site. 101 W. Spikes Road Yuma, AZ 85365 designated a National Natural Landmark The Visitor Center is located in the and productivity of the public lands for the (See map, F-6) Nodular masses of Providence Mountains 17 miles north of Needles, CA 92363 (520) 783-3371 in 1973 in recognition of its outstanding use and enjoyment of present and future visual and geologic features. This 250-foot beautifully colored and patterned opalite Interstate 40 on Essex Road. For recorded (760) 326-7000 '!; Essex generations. BLM offices are maintained in crater is about 6,000 years old and one of ::: ;b. - can be found in the Ship Mountains. The information regarding cavern tours, Int ernet: www. ca. blm.gov/needles Kofa National Wildlife Refuge combination of pastel colors and the fine Riverside, Barstow, El Centro, Needles, Palm the best examples of a volcanic cinder (See map, G-3) Camp Clipper, also know camping and park conditions, call (760)- P.O.Box 6290 quality make this material highly prized Springs and Ridgecrest.
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