Outstanding Natural Area

An Outstanding Natural Area is a protected area designation in the United States. The designations are managed by the Bureau of Land Management within the National Landscape Conservation System. The following table contains a partial list of outstanding natural areas, three of which protect lighthouses and the adjacent land.

Name Location
Devils Garden[1] Garfield County, Utah
Diamond Craters[2] Harney County, Oregon
Ear Mountain[3][4] 20 miles (32 km) west of Choteau, Montana
Jacumba[5] near Jacumba Hot Springs, Imperial County, California
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse[6] Jupiter, Florida
Phipps-Death Hollow[7] Garfield County, Utah
Piedras Blancas Light Station[6] near San Simeon, California
Rockwell[8][9] Little Sahara Recreation Area, Juab County, Utah
Sacramento River Bend[10] near Red Bluff, California
Valley of the Giants[11] Oregon Coast Range, Polk County, Oregon
Yaquina Head[12] north of Newport, Oregon
Sacramento River Bend Outstanding Natural Area, near Red Bluff, California

The Devils Garden and Phipps-Death Hollow, both in Garfield County, Utah, are also known as wilderness study areas.[13]

References
  1. "Feature Detail Report for: Devils Garden Outstanding Natural Area". geonames.usgs.gov. USGS. 25 February 1989. Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  2. "Diamond Craters". blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original on 30 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  3. "Montana-Dakotas Recreation Activities, Hiking tab". blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original on 30 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  4. Sarah Cherry (July 14, 2017). "Have you heard? Ear Mountain is absolutely stunning". greatfallstribune.com. Great Falls Tribune, a division of Gannett Company, Inc. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  5. "Jacumba, Imperial - San Diego County Line (PDF map)" (PDF). blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  6. The Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (Pub.L. 110–229, 122 Stat. 754-876, enacted May 8, 2008
  7. "Phipps - Death Hollow Wilderness Study Area". blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  8. "Little Sahara Recreation Area". blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  9. "Little Sahara Recreation Area, Utah's Premier OHV Area" (PDF). blm.gov. BLM. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 March 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  10. "Northwest California Integrated Resource Management Plan". blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  11. "BLM's Valley of the Giants to be Dedicated as a Heritage Tree Grove" (PDF). blm.gov. BLM. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  12. "Yaquina Head". blm.gov. BLM. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  13. "National Landscape Conservation System - Wilderness Study Areas" (PDF). BLM. December 2009. pp. 21, 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
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