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Owens Peak Wilderness
Wilderness Area
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Sierra Nevada
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CA
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The Owens Peak Wilderness is a 73,767-acre (298.52 km2) wilderness area comprising the rugged eastern face of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Owens Peak (8,445 ft) is the high point. The land was set aside with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-433) by the US Congress. The mountainous terrain has deep, winding, open and expansive canyons, many which contain springs with extensive riparian vegetation. This area is a transition zone between the Great Basin, Mojave Desert and Sierra Nevada ecoregions. Vegetation varies considerably with a creosote desert scrub community on the bajadas, scattered yuccas, cacti, annuals, cottonwood and oak trees in the canyons and valleys and a juniper-pinyon woodland with sagebrush and digger/gray pine on the upper…
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Nearby Wilderness Areas
6
Chimney Peak Wilderness
Wilderness Area
in
Sierra Nevada
near
Little Lake
,
CA
Owens Peak Wilderness Study Area
Wilderness Study Area
in
Sierra Nevada
near
Onyx
,
CA
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Trails
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FEATURED
Pacific Crest Trail
Plants
Lupinus excubitus
SPECIES ·
“Grape Soda Lupine”
15
Observations
JAN - DEC
Vitis giradiana
SPECIES
14
Observations
JAN - DEC
Desert Peach
Prunus andersonii (species)
13
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bajada Lupine
Lupinus concinnus (species)
11
Observations
JAN - DEC
Lupinus bicolor
SPECIES ·
“Miniature Lupine”
8
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Animals
Common Side-Blotched Lizard
Uta stansburiana (species),
“Side-Blotched Lizard”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Great Basin Collared Lizard
Crotaphytus bicinctores (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Zebra-Tailed Lizard
Callisaurus draconoides (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Desert Cottontail
Sylvilagus audubonii (species),
“Audubon's Cottontail”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Birds
Common Raven
Corvus corax (species),
“Raven”, “Northern Raven”
739
Observations
JAN - DEC
Bewick's Wren
Thryomanes bewickii (species)
725
Observations
JAN - DEC
California Scrub Jay
Aphelocoma californica (species),
“Western Scrub-Jay”
697
Observations
JAN - DEC
California Towhee
Melozone crissalis (species),
“Pipilo Crissalis”
689
Observations
JAN - DEC
California Quail
Callipepla californica (species),
“Californian Quail”
668
Observations
JAN - DEC
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Chelinidea vittiger
SPECIES ·
“Cactus Coreid”
2
Observations
JAN - DEC
Largus californicus
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Zelus tetracanthus
SPECIES
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Western Pygmy Blue
Brephidium exilis (species)
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
Bombus vosnesenskii
SPECIES ·
“Vosnesensky Bumble Bee”
1
Observation
JAN - DEC
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Taxonomy
Region
49
Protected Area
33
Wilderness Area
1
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