Juniper Dunes Wilderness
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Juniper Dunes Wilderness
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| location | Franklin County , Washington , USA | |
| surface | 28.9 km² | |
| WDPA ID | 555556115 | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 24 ' N , 118 ° 51' W | |
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| Setup date | 1984 | |
| administration | United States Department of the Interior , Bureau of Land Management | |
The Juniper Dunes Wilderness is a protected wilderness area with an area of 7,140 acres (28.9 km²) in Franklin County , Washington state . Founded in 1984, it is famous for the northernmost occurrence of West American Juniper ( Juniperus occidentalis ), which is native to the area's large sand dunes. The closest place is Pasco .
fauna and Flora
Common species of animals include mule deer , bobcats , coyotes , silver badgers , skunks , weasels , tree prickers , pocket rats , kangaroo rats , several types of mice , hawks and sparrowhawks , owls , ravens , quails , ostrich quails , pheasants , pigeons , numerous songbirds and rattlesnakes . Contrary to what the name (Juniper = juniper) suggests, no trees of any significant number grow in the area. The rest of the vegetation consists of a. rabbit bushes ( Chrysothamnus nauseosus ; English rubber rabbitbrush or green rabbitbrush ), couch grass ( English blue bunch wheatgrass ), wild rice ( Oryzopsis ; English Indian rice grass ), magic flowers ( Abronia ; English white sand-verbena ), arenaria ( Arenaria ; English Franklin sandwort ) Tragacanth ( Astragalus ; English sicklepod milkvetch ), strand of hair ( Cymopterus ; English turpentine cymopterus ), wool white ( Hymenopappus ), opuntia ( Opuntia ; English prickly pear cactus ), beard thread ( Penstemon ; English sand-dune penstemon ), butterflies of the genus Psoralea ( English lanceleaf breadroot ), sorrel ( Rumex ; english sand dock ), balsamorhiza ( Balsamorhiza ; english Carey balsamroot ) Brodiaea TYPES ( english wild-hyacinth ), delphinium ( Delphinium ; english larkspur ), Linum perenne ( Linum perenne ; english wild flax ) , persicaria ( Eriogonum ; english snow buckwheat , Umbelliferae) the genus Lomatium ( english desert parsl ey Indian potato ) and Phacelia species ( English silverleaf phacelia ).
Access
There is currently no legal access to the Juniper Dunes Wilderness as all of the land in the area is privately owned. An agreement with the landowners from 2007 allows travel with permission on an old runway that ends near the wilderness area.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Juniper Dunes Wilderness . Archived from the original on November 11, 2003. Retrieved February 21, 2008.
- ↑ Juniper Dunes Wilderness Area, Franklin County, Washington . In: Botanical Electronic News . Retrieved March 1, 2019.
- ^ Anna King: Access deal met at Juniper Dunes , Tri-City Herald. February 15, 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
Web links
- Eric Degerman: The Sahara of Washington Juniper Dunes Wilderness, just 15 Miles north of Pasco, seems a world away , Tri-City Herald. April 24, 2002. Archived from the original on June 15, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2006. (English)
- Karen Sykes: Head east to escape the rain at Juniper Dunes Wilderness , Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 20, 1997. Accessed February 21, 2008. ( Page no longer available ) (English)
- Map of the Juniper Dunes Wilderness
- Juniper Dunes Wilderness Area - Bureau of Land Management website