Black Rock Range

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Black Rock Range

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Black Rock Point and the Black Rock Range
Highest point
Peak Pahute Peak/Big Mountain
Elevation 8,566 ft (2,611 m)
Geography
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Location of Black Rock Range in Nevada
Country United States
State Nevada
Region Black Rock Desert
District Humboldt County
Range coordinates 41°16′47.63″N119°3′37.65″W / 41.2798972°N 119.0604583°W / 41.2798972; -119.0604583 Coordinates: 41°16′47.63″N119°3′37.65″W / 41.2798972°N 119.0604583°W / 41.2798972; -119.0604583
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southern Black Rock Range

The Black Rock Range is a mountain range in northwestern Nevada. [1] It is named for Black Rock Point, which is located at the southern end of the range. The Black Rock Range divides the Black Rock Desert into eastern and western arms. Pahute Peak, also known as Big Mountain, [2] is the highest point in the range at 8,566 feet (2,611 m) above sea level.

Nevada State of the United States of America

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Black Rock Desert

The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe eco-region), of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic trails. It is in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan.

The majority of the range is part of the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area. In addition two separate federally designated wilderness areas are part of the Black Rock Range. Those wilderness areas are Pahute Peak Wilderness and the North Black Rock Range Wilderness.

Pahute Peak Wilderness northwest Nevada

The Pahute Peak Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the central Black Rock Range west of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness.

North Black Rock Range Wilderness

The North Black Rock Range Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located northeast of Soldier Meadows and south of the Summit Lake Indian Reservation.

In December 2009, the Bureau of Land Management announced a roundup of 2500 wild horses out of an estimated population of 3000 in the Black Rock Range and vicinity, due to overpopulation. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Black Rock Range". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2008-01-11.
  2. ↑ "Big Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2008-01-13.
  3. ↑ Linthicum, Kate (2009-12-29). "Controversial roundup of wild horses underway". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-02-22.
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