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California

In addition to the Wild and Scenic Rivers, NCAs, Monuments, the Headwaters Forest Reserve and Trails listed below, California has 82 Wilderness Areas, and 73 Wilderness Study Areas. For a detailed list of these additional Conservation System units in California, go to www.blm.gov/nlcs/summary_tables.htm.

Posted by Conservation System Alliance on November 7, 2007

National Conservation Areas
California Desert Conservation Area
King Range National Conservation Area

National Monuments
California Coastal National Monument
Carrizo Plain National Monument
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument

National Scenic and Historic Trails
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
Old Spanish National Historic Trail
Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail
Pony Express National Historic Trail

Wild and Scenic Rivers
Eel River (Middle Fork)
Klamath River
Merced River
North Fork American River
Trinity River
Tuolumne River

Other Conservation Designations
Headwaters Forest Reserve

Wilderness Areas
Argus Range Wilderness Area
Big Maria Mountains Wilderness Area
Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness Area
Bighorn Mountain Wilderness Area
Black Mountain Wilderness Area
Bright Star Wilderness Area
Bristol Mountains Wilderness Area
Cache Creek Wilderness Area
Cadiz Dunes Wilderness Area
Carrizo Gorge Wilderness Area
Cedar Roughs Wilderness Area
Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness Area
Chimney Peak Wilderness Area
Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness Area
Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness Area
Clipper Mountain Wilderness Area
Coso Range Wilderness Area
Coyote Mountains Wilderness Area
Darwin Falls Wilderness Area
Dead Mountains Wilderness Area
Domeland Wilderness Area
El Paso Mountains Wilderness Area
Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness Area
Funeral Mountains Wilderness Area
Golden Valley Wilderness Area
Grass Valley Wilderness Area
Hollow Hills Wilderness Area
Ibex Wilderness Area
Indian Pass Wilderness Area
Inyo Mountains Wilderness Area
Ishi Wilderness Area
Jacumba Wilderness Area
Kelso Dunes Wilderness Area
Kiavah Wilderness Area
King Range Wilderness Area
Kingston Range Wilderness Area
Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness Area
Little Picacho Wilderness Area
Machesna Mountain Wilderness Area
Malpais Mesa Wilderness Area
Manly Peak Wilderness Area
Mecca Hills Wilderness Area
Mesquite Wilderness Area
Newberry Mountains Wilderness Area
Nopah Range Wilderness Area
North Algodones Dunes Wilderness Area
North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness Area
Old Woman Mountains Wilderness Area
Orocopia Mountains Wilderness Area
Otay Mountain Wilderness Area
Owens Peak Wilderness Area
Pahrump Valley Wilderness Area
Palen/McCoy Wilderness Area
Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness Area
Picacho Peak Wilderness Area
Piper Mountain Wilderness Area
Piute Mountains Wilderness Area
Resting Spring Range Wilderness Area
Rice Valley Wilderness Area
Riverside Mountains Wilderness Area
Rocks and Islands Wilderness Area
Rodman Mountains Wilderness Area
Sacatar Trail Wilderness Area
Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness Area
San Gorgonio Wilderness Area
Santa Lucia Wilderness Area
Santa Rosa Wilderness Area
Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness Area
Sheephole Valley Wilderness Area
South Fork Eel River Wilderness Area
South Nopah Range Wilderness Area
Stateline Wilderness Area
Stepladder Mountains Wilderness Area
Surprise Canyon Wilderness Area
Sylvania Mountains Wilderness Area
Trilobite Wilderness Area
Trinity Alps Wilderness Area
Turtle Mountains Wilderness Area
Ventana Additions Wilderness Area
Whipple Mountains Wilderness Area
Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness Area
Yuki Wilderness Area

Wilderness Study Areas
Agua Tibia Wilderness Study Area
Avawatz Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Bear Canyon Wilderness Study Area
Bear Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Beauty Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Big Butte Wilderness Study Area
Bitterbrush Wilderness Study Area
Black Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Bodie Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Bodie Wilderness Study Area
Buffalo Hills Wilderness Study Area
Cady Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Caliente Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Carrizo Gorge Wilderness Study Area
Carson Iceberg Wilderness Study Area
Casa Diablo Wilderness Study Area
Cerro Gordo Wilderness Study Area
Chidago Canyon Wilderness Study Area
Crater Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Death Valley 17 Wilderness Study Area
Dry Valley Rim Wilderness Study Area
Eden Valley Wilderness Study Area
Excelsior Wilderness Study Area
Fish Slough Wilderness Study Area
Five Springs Wilderness Study Area
Garcia Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Granite Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Great Falls Basin Wilderness Study Area
Hauser Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Independence Creek Wilderness Study Area
Kingston Range Wilderness Study Area
Lava Wilderness Study Area
Machesna Wilderness Study Area
Masonic Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Merced River Wilderness Study Area
Milk Ranch/Case Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Mormon Meadow Wilderness Study Area
Moses Wilderness Study Area
Mount Biedeman Wilderness Study Area
Owens Peak Wilderness Study Area
Panoche Hills North Wilderness Study Area
Panoche Hills South Wilderness Study Area
Pit River Canyon Wilderness Study Area
Piute Cypress Wilderness Study Area
Rockhouse (a) Wilderness Study Area
Rockhouse (b) Wilderness Study Area
Rocky Creek/Cache Creek Wilderness Study Area
Sacatar Meadows Wilderness Study Area
San Benito Mountain Wilderness Study Area
San Felipe Hills Wilderness Study Area
San Ysidro Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Sawtooth Mountains A Wilderness Study Area
Sawtooth Mountains C Wilderness Study Area
Scodie Wilderness Study Area
Sheep Ridge Wilderness Study Area
Skedaddle Wilderness Study Area
Slinkard Wilderness Study Area
Soda Mountains Wilderness Study Area
South Warner Contiguous Wilderness Study Area
Southern Inyo Wilderness Study Area
Symmes Creek Wilderness Study Area
Table Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Thatcher Ridge Wilderness Study Area
Timbered Crater Wilderness Study Area
Tule Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Tunnison Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Twin Peaks Wilderness Study Area
Volcanic Tablelands Wilderness Study Area
Walford Springs Wilderness Study Area
White Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Yolla Bolly Contiguous Wilderness Study Area

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