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National Conservation Area

{{Short description|Protected area managed by the US Bureau of Land Management}}

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File:SPRNCA-Rainbow.jpg at San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona]]

National Conservation Area is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States. They are nature conservation areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the National Landscape Conservation System.

Restrictions vary between these conservation areas, but generally they are not leased or sold under mining laws and motorized vehicle use is restricted, unlike many other BLM areas.

National Conservation Areas

There are seventeen National Conservation Areas within the National Landscape Conservation System, they are:

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!Conservation Area

!BLM Acres

!State

-Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area68,083Utah
-Black Rock Desert – High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area799,165Nevada
-Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area209,610Colorado
-El Malpais National Conservation Area339,100New Mexico
-Fort Stanton – Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area24,950New Mexico
-Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area21,767Arizona
-Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area62,844Colorado
John Wesley Powell National Conservation Area{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/47/text|title=Text - S.47 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act|date=2019-03-12|website=www.congress.gov|access-date=2019-03-14}}

|29,868

|Utah

-King Range National Conservation Area57,288California
-Las Cienegas National Conservation Area35,280Arizona
-McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area122,300Colorado
-Red Cliffs National Conservation Area44,725Utah
-Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area195,819Nevada
-San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area55,495Arizona
-Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area48,438Nevada
-Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area484,034Idaho
-Steese National Conservation Area1,208,624Alaska

References

External links

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National Conservation Areas of the United States}}

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100509183831/http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/NLCS/National_Conservation_Areas.html Bureau of Land Management.gov: National Conservation Areas and Similarly Designated Lands]

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Conservation Area

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Category:Bureau of Land Management