Trout Creek Mountains
The Trout Creek Mountains are mostly in southeastern Oregon and partially in northern Nevada in the United States. The range’s highest point is Orevada View Benchmark, 8,506 feet above sea level, in Nevada. The mountains are characteristic of the Great Basin’s topography of mostly parallel mountain ranges alternating with flat valleys. Most of the range is public land administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
About Trout Creek Mountains in brief
The Trout Creek Mountains are mostly in southeastern Oregon and partially in northern Nevada in the United States. The range’s highest point is Orevada View Benchmark, 8,506 feet above sea level, in Nevada. The mountains are characteristic of the Great Basin’s topography of mostly parallel mountain ranges alternating with flat valleys. Most of the range is public land administered by the federal Bureau of Land Management. Despite the area’s dry climate, a few year-round streams provide habitat for the rare Lahontan cutthroat trout. Former mines at the McDermitt Caldera produced some of the largest amounts of mercury in North America in the 20th century. The nearest human settlements are the Whitehorse Ranch, about 20 miles directly north from the middle of the mountains, and Denio, Nevada, about 15 miles to the west. The Kings River Valley, which separates the Bilk Creek Mountains on the west from the Montana Mountains, is about 190 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada. There are meadows around the mountains that flow off the north and south slopes, although most streams in the mountains do not flow year- round. The largest of the four largest streams in Harney County, Oregon, are Whitehorse Creek and Trout Creek. All streams drain into the Black Rock Desert, which begins in the south, where it meets the Nevada Rock Desert and begins to evaporate in the Blackrock Desert. The Granites are a sub-range of the Trout Creek mountains that lies south of the Granites and begins at 7,781 feet at Disaster Peak.
The Oregon Canyon Mountains border the mountains on the east along the Harney–Malheur county line, while the Pueblo Mountains are the next range west of the trout Creek Mountains. More of the mountain range is in Oregon than in Nevada. The mountains run 51 miles north to south and 36 miles east to west. There are no roads through the mountains; they are only accessible by foot or horseback. The largest streams that flow into the mountains are Cottonwood Creek, Trout Creek, Willow Creek, and White Horse Creek. They all drain into an area on the south side of the BlackRock Desert where it begins and ends at Quinn River, which starts in the north, and flows south to the Black rock Desert and south to Nevada. More than 1 million people live in the area, mostly cattle ranchers and ranchers. The Trout Creek Mountain Working Group was formed in 1988 to help resolve disagreements among livestock owners, environmentalists, government agencies, and other interested parties. The stakeholders met and agreed on changes to land-use practices, and since the early 1990s, riparian zones have begun to recover. In the 1980s, the effects of grazing allotments on riparian zone and the fish led to land use conflict. The group helped resolve the issues and have improved land use practices in the region since the 1990s. The highest point in the range is O revada View, which is located in Nevada about one mile north of the Oregon border.
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