BLM-Nevada: The Basin and Range National Monument area of southeastern Nevada is an iconic American landscape. The area is one of the most undisturbed corners of the broader Great Basin region, which extends from the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the west to the Colorado Plateau in the east. The vast, rugged landscape redefines our notions of distance and space and brings into sharp focus the will and resolve of the people who have lived here. The Basin and Range National Monument comprises 704,000 acres of public lands managed by the BLM in Lincoln and Nye counties in Nevada, about two hours north of Las Vegas (see map below). The monument includes Garden Valley and Coal Valley; the Worthington Mountains, Golden Gate Range, Seaman Mountains, and Mount Irish Range; the Hiko Narrows and White River Narrows; and the Shooting Gallery rock art site. It is the first national monument managed by the BLM in Nevada. The monument is the fifth largest unit of the BLM National Conservation Lands and the second largest in Nevada. It is also the second National Monument in Nevada, the other being Tule Springs Fossil Beds which is managed by the National Park Service. The area ranks behind sixteen National Parks and seventeen land-based National Wildlife Refuges. A PDF map of the the Basin and Range National Monument is below: ![]()
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