• Source: Palen Mountains

The Palen Mountains are located in the southern Mojave Desert – northern Colorado Desert in eastern Riverside County, California, US. The range lies southeast of the Coxcomb Mountains, and northeast of the Chuckwalla Mountains near Interstate 10. The mountains lie in a southwest-northeasterly direction and are approximately 15 miles long and nine miles wide at their widest point.




Desert Lily Preserve


Palen Pass, at 1,472 feet above sea level, lies at the northern end of the chain, with Palen Dry Lake and the Bureau of Land Management designated and managed Edmund C. Jaeger Nature Sanctuary to the west of the range in the southern Palen Valley. It preserves the beautiful Desert Lily (Hesperocallis undulata), many other native desert plants, and an important undeveloped "land bridge" wildlife corridor.




Palen/McCoy Wilderness Area


The Palen Mountains are in the Palen/McCoy Wilderness Area, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Within the Palen-McCoy Wilderness are the Palen, Granite, Arica, Little Maria, and McCoy Mountains, which are five distinct mountain ranges separated by broad sloping alluvial fans-bajadas. Because this large area incorporates so many major geological features, the diversity of vegetation and landforms is exceptional. The desert-wash woodland found here provides food and cover for burro deer, coyote, bobcat, gray fox, and mountain lion. Desert pavement, bajadas, interior valleys, canyons, dense ironwood forests, canyons, and rugged peaks form a constantly changing landscape pattern.




See also


Category:Flora of the California desert regions
Category:Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
Category:Wilderness areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley
Category:Bureau of Land Management areas in California




References



Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas. Benchmark Maps. p. 113. ISBN 0-929591-80-1.
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Palen Mountains




External links


Palen-McCoy Wilderness Area BLM Official Website
Basin and Range Watch: Chuckwalla Valley
BLM Palen-McCoy Wilderness Map
Palen-McCoy Wilderness Area photographs

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• Palen Mountains
• Palen
• List of mountain ranges of California
• Arica Mountains
• McCoy Mountains
• Little Maria Mountains
• Granite Mountains (Riverside County, California)
• Camp Granite
• Chuckwalla Valley
• Maria fold and thrust belt