Rice Valley Wilderness
Sand dunes within the Rice Valley Wilderness.
The Rice Valley Wilderness is a wilderness area near Blythe and Rice in the Mojave Desert region of California, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.[1]
The 41,777-acre wilderness includes portions of the Big Maria Mountains, along with a stretch of sand dunes that is part of one of the state's largest dune systems.[1] Congress designated the area as part of the 1994 California Desert Protection Act.[2]
References
- 1 2 Rice Valley Wilderness, Bureau of Land Management
- ↑ Rice Valley Wilderness, Wilderness.net
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rice Valley Wilderness
- Sand Dune locations, north of Big Maria Mountains & southwest of the Riverside Mountains, southeast Rice Valley, a wind stricture point: (BLM map for Riverside Mountains Wilderness, northwest Big Maria's map),
Coordinates: 33°56′54″N 114°44′41″W / 33.94833°N 114.74472°W
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