Virgin Mountains
Template:Short description Template:Infobox mountain The Virgin Mountains are a mountain range of the northeastern Mojave Desert, located in Clark County, southeastern Nevada and Mohave County, northwestern Arizona.
Geography
Virgin Peak, at Script error: No such module "convert". in elevation, is the highest point in the range. The range is northeast of Lake Mead, and around Script error: No such module "convert". south of the Nevada town of Mesquite.
Hydrologically, the range is located in the Lower Colorado—Lake Mead watershed. (USGS Huc 1501),[1]
91.6% of the range is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, with a section of the Virgin Peak area designated within the BLM Virgin Mountain Natural Area.[2]
Natural history
The range has many species of lizards, as well as the Panamint rattlesnake and glossy snake. Trees found in the range include Single-leaf pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla), Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica), White fir (Abies concolor), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), and Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum). The range has one endemic species of stick insect, Timema nevadense.[3]
See also
References
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- ↑ Bureau of Land Management: Virgin Mountain Natural Area
- ↑ Strohecker, H. F. 1966. New Timema from Nevada and Arizona. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 42: 25-26
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External links
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- Mountain ranges of Nevada
- Mountain ranges of Arizona
- Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert
- Mountain ranges of Clark County, Nevada
- Mountain ranges of Mohave County, Arizona
- Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
- Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona
- Bureau of Land Management areas in Nevada