Cedar Mountain Wilderness
IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)
Location:	Utah, USA
Nearest city:	Tooele, UT
Coordinates:	40°36′″N, 112°57′″W
Area:	104,585 acres (423 km²)
Established:	January 6, 2006
Visitation:	(in )
Governing body:	U.S. Bureau of Land Management

The Cedar Mountain Wilderness is located in northwestern Utah, USA, just south of Interstate 80. The vegetation on the upper elevations of the Cedar Mountains is dominated by junipers (referred to as "cedars" by early pioneers). The foothill and valley regions include mixed desert shrubs. Cheatgrass is prevalent over large areas burned by range fires. The World Conservation Union or International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ... Broadly, a wilderness area is a region where the land is left in a state where human modifications are minimal; that is, as a wilderness. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... Image File history File links US_Locator_Blank. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 13th 219,887 km² 435 km 565 km 3. ... Tooele is a city located in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. ... January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ... Official language(s) English Capital Salt Lake City Largest city Salt Lake City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 13th 219,887 km² 435 km 565 km 3. ... Route across the United States Interstate 80 (abbreviated I-80) is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States. ... Species See text. ... Species Cedrus deodara Cedrus libani    var. ... A commemorative statue of mormon pioneers. ... Binomial name Bromus tectorum L. Drooping brome (Bromus tectorum), is a grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia and northern Africa. ...

The Cedar Mountain Wilderness includes more than half of the 180,000 acre (728 km²) Cedar Mountain Herd Management Area, where wild horses have grazed since they were introduced in the late 1800s. A survey conducted in December 1991 counted 444 horses, and parts of the herd can often be seen on the wilderness. The Bureau of Land Management fills watering troughs for the horses when springs dry up in the summer. This artificial water supply benefits other wildlife species such as pronghorn antelope. Wild horses were indigenous to North America, populating the continent before the Ice Age. ... US BLM logo The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior which administers Americas public lands, totaling approximately 261 million surface acres (1,056,229. ... Binomial name Antilocapra americana Ord, 1815 Subspecies The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae, and the fastest land animal in North America running at speeds of 54 mph (90 km/h). ...

The U.S. Congress designated the Cedar Mountain Wilderness primarily in response to an effort by members of the Utah congressional delegation and the Utah governor to block rail access to a proposed high-level nuclear waste storage facility on the nearby Skull Valley Goshute Reservation. The project is sponsored by a consortium of nuclear power companies known as Private Fuel Storage, which received a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in February 2006. The facility has not yet been built. Congress in Joint Session. ... This page has the current U.S. congressional delegation from the state of Utah. ... Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. ... Radioactive waste is waste material containing radioactive chemical elements that does not have a practical purpose. ... Skull Valley is the Goshute Indian Reservation located approximately 45 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. ... The Goshutes are a Native American tribe that once numbered 20,000. ... A nuclear power station. ... The NRC, or Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is a United States government agency that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act in 1974, and was first opened January 19, 1975. ...

See also

• Wilderness
• National Wilderness Preservation System
• List of U.S. Wilderness Areas

Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana, United States Wilderness is land that has not been significantly modified by direct or indirect human activity. ... The National Wilderness Preservation System protects federally managed land areas that are of a pristine condition. ... Four federal agencies of the United States government administer the U.S. Wilderness Areas, which includes 680 wilderness areas and 105,695,176 acres (427,733 km²). These agencies are: United States Forest Service United States National Park Service United States Bureau of Land Management United States Fish and Wildlife...

References

• Lynna P. Howard, Utah's Wilderness Areas: The Complete Guide (Westcliffe Publishers, 2005) ISBN 1565793889
• Bill Cunningham & Polly Burke, Wild Utah: A Guide to 45 Roadless Recreation Areas (Falcon Publishing, 1998) ISBN 1560446161
• Bureau of Land Management, Utah BLM Statewide Wilderness Final Environmental Impact Statement: Volume II West-Central Region (BLM Utah State Office, 1990)

External links

• Wilderness.net: Cedar Mountain Wilderness
• Google Local satellite view
• Maps and aerial photos
  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image from TerraServer-USA
  • Surrounding area map from Google Maps
  • Location in the United States from the Census Bureau