Medicine Bow Mountains
Medicine Bow Mountains | |
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Highest point | |
Peak | Clark Peak |
Elevation | 12,951 ft (3,947 m) |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 40°36′23″N 105°55′48″W / 40.60639°N 105.93000°W[1] |
Dimensions | |
Length | 100 mi (160 km) |
Geography | |
Country | United States |
States | Colorado and Wyoming |
Range coordinates | 40°49.7′N 106°4.7′W / 40.8283°N 106.0783°W |
Parent range | Rocky Mountains |
The Medicine Bow Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend 100 miles (160 km)[2] from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming. The northern extent of this range is the sub-range the Snowy Range.[3] From the northern end of Colorado's Never Summer Mountains, the Medicine Bow mountains extend north from Cameron Pass along the border between Larimer and Jackson counties in Colorado and northward into south central Wyoming. In Wyoming, the range sits west of Laramie, in Albany and Carbon counties to the route of the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Interstate 80. The mountains often serve as a symbol for the city of Laramie. The range is home to Snowy Range Ski Area.
The highest peak in the range is
Geology
The Medicine Bow Mountains resulted from continental compression during the
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Fauna
Wildlife abounds in these mountains, with mule deer, elk, moose, black bear, mountain lions, coyotes, marmots, pika, Richardson's ground squirrels, bobcats, and lynx as well as a tremendous variety of birds. Brook and rainbow trout as well as grayling and golden trout are found in the streams. A disjunct population of arctic fairy shrimp (Brachinecta paludosa) has been documented in a few lakes in the northern part of the range.
Research
Since 1987, the Glacier Lakes area of the Snowy Range has been home to the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site (GLEES), a field unit of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service.[4] Areas of scientific inquiry at the site include atmospheric pollutant deposition, forest carbon and water vapor cycling, effect of insect outbreaks, and alpine lake and stream hydrology. The site is 642 hectares (1,590 acres) in extent and hosts facilities for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), the National Dry Deposition Network (NDDN), and AmeriFlux (Eddy covariance).
Airline crash
This mountain range is also home to some of the remains of a
References
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- ^ "CLARK". NGS Data Sheet. National Geodetic Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- ^ "Medicine Bow Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- ^ "Snowy Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- ^ "The Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.