Rice Valley Wilderness Explained

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

• • 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), http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/ca/pdf/pa/wilderness/maps_7pt5.Par.71043.File.dat/riverside_mtns_03.pdf

33.9483°N -114.7447°W

Notes and References

1. http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/wilderness/wa/areas/rice_valley.html Rice Valley Wilderness
2. http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/wildView?wid=492 Rice Valley Wilderness