Mount Trumbull Wilderness

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Mount Trumbull Wilderness
wilderness area)
A view of Mt. Trumbull from a nearby cinder cone
LocationMohave County, Arizona, United States
Nearest cityFredonia, Arizona
Coordinates36°24′29″N 113°07′41″W / 36.408°N 113.128°W / 36.408; -113.128
Area7,880 acre (31 km2)
Established1984
Governing bodyBureau of Land Management

The Mount Trumbull Wilderness is a 7,880 acre (31 km2) wilderness area located on the Uinkaret Plateau in the Arizona Strip. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

View from the top of Mt. Trumbull

The Mount Trumbull Wilderness is north of

Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. It is approximately 60 miles southwest of Fredonia, Arizona and about 60 miles south of St. George, Utah. It is about 7 miles north of the Mount Logan Wilderness
.

The namesake of the wilderness, Mt. Trumbull, is 8,028 feet (2,446m) at its highest point. A 2.5 mile trail to the top can be accessed from

Senator Lyman Trumbull.[1]

Flora

Dead tree at the top of Mt. Trumbull

At lower elevations the vegetation of the wilderness consists of

ponderosa pines
. The area was heavily logged in the late 19th century resulting in most ponderosas being new growth, thus small, but some towering old growth ponderosa pines can be seen in the Wilderness that are more than 500 years old. There are also various types of grasses which grow intermittently throughout the wilderness.

Fauna

The wilderness is home to a variety of animals.

lizards in the area including horned lizards. Birds present include red crossbills, Steller's jays, common ravens
and many others.

Geology

The Mt. Trumbull mesa is capped by a 3.6 million year old dark grey basalt lava flow, one of the first eruptions in the Uinkaret volcanic field. The volcanic field has spawned at least 213 known eruptions since then, including seventeen lava flows that poured into the Grand Canyon and dammed the Colorado River.[2] The most recent eruption was at Little Springs approximately 960 years ago.[3] Its lava flow can be seen just south of Mt. Trumbull along BLM road 1044. The Mt. Trumbull lava flow cap protects the colorful Moenkopi Formation beneath that would have otherwise been eroded away long ago. An undated and unnamed cinder cone sits on top of the mesa. It erupted through the original 3.6 million year old basalt cap likely in the last few hundred thousand years based on minimal surface erosion. It ejected bright red volcanic cinders and lava bombs which can be seen along the switchback trail.

Archaeology

The wilderness contains both

members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
used the area to harvest lumber to build many of the structures in St George, Utah.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mount Trumbull Wilderness.
  • Wilderness Act
  • List of U.S. Wilderness Areas
  • List of Arizona Wilderness Areas

References

  1. The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons
    . 1961, Dover Publications, New York.
  2. ^ https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/11/5/1305/132253/A-new-model-for-Quaternary-lava-dams-in-Grand [bare URL]
  3. ^ "The Little Springs Eruption at Mt. Trumbull - Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)".

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