Lehman Caves National Monument

.....Lehman Caves National Monument Department of Agriculture AVA12596VNB1 - 1971 The podcast focuses on the formation of limestone caves featuring the singular effects in Lehman Caves, to create a better understanding of the beauty and importance of the great caves of America and their geological study. Great Basin National Park is a United States National Park located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established in 1986. It is most commonly accessed by way of Nevada State Route 488, which is connected to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 by Nevada State Route 487 via the small town of Baker, the closest settlement to the park. The park derives its name from the Great Basin, the dry and mountainous region between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Mountains. Topographically, this area is known as the Basin and Range Province. The park is located about 290 miles (470 km) north of Las Vegas and protects 77,180 acres (31,230 ha). The park is notable for its groves of ancient bristlecone pines, the oldest known nonclonal organisms, and for the Lehman Caves at the base of 13,063-foot (3,982 m) Wheeler Peak. The peak is also home to Wheeler Peak Glacier, which is much further north than Mount Everest and the Himalaya glaciers, so is not the southernmost glacier in the Northern Hemisphere, despite claims to the contrary. President Warren G. Harding created Lehman Caves National Monument by presidential proclamation on January 24, 1922. It was designated a national park on October 27, 1986. A number of developed campsites are within the park, as well as excellent back-country camping opportunities. Adjacent to Great Basin National Park lies the Highland Ridge Wilderness. These two protected areas provide contiguous wildlife habitat and protection to 227.8 square miles (590.0 km2) of eastern Nevada's basin lands. Information Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin_National_Park Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org under a joint venture with NTIS. Source Link https://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava12596vnb1 Copyright link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions Footage downloaded and edited by Jason at PublicAccessPod producer of Public Access America Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJbAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy