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Cedar Mountain Wilderness, the Glossary

The Cedar Mountain Wilderness is located in northwestern Utah, United States, just south of Interstate 80.^[1]

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Bureau of Land Management areas in Utah
Wilderness areas of Utah

Aragonite

Aragonite is a carbonate mineral and one of the three most common naturally occurring crystal forms of calcium carbonate, the others being calcite and vaterite.

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Bromus tectorum

Bromus tectorum, known as downy brome, drooping brome or cheatgrass, is a winter annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa, but has become invasive in many other areas.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering U.S. federal lands.

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Cedar Mountains (Tooele County, Utah)

The Cedar Mountains of Tooele County, Utah, USA, are a 45-mile (72 km) long mountain range located in the county's east, bordering east sections of the Great Salt Lake Desert on the range's west and southwest flanks.

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Dugway Proving Ground

Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a United States Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah and south of the Utah Test and Training Range.

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Feral

A feral animal or plant is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Interstate 80

Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area.

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Jon Huntsman Jr.

Jon Meade Huntsman Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American businessman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 16th governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009.

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Juniper

Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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List of wilderness areas of the United States

The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting of federal land. Cedar Mountain Wilderness and List of wilderness areas of the United States are IUCN Category Ib.

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Mormon pioneers

The Mormon pioneers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated beginning in the mid-1840s until the late-1860s across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.

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National Wilderness Preservation System

The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their natural condition.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

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Private Fuel Storage

Private Fuel Storage LLC (PFS) was a nuclear power industry consortium organized to manage spent nuclear fuel based in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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Pronghorn

The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

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Rob Bishop

Robert William Bishop (born July 13, 1951) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2003 to 2021.

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Shrub–steppe

Shrub-steppe is a type of low-rainfall natural grassland.

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Skull Valley Indian Reservation

The Skull Valley Indian Reservation (Gosiute dialect: Wepayuttax) is located in Tooele County, Utah, United States, approximately southwest of Salt Lake City.

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Tooele County, Utah

Tooele County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Tooele, Utah

Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Wilderness Act

The Wilderness Act of 1964 is a federal land management statute meant to protect federal wilderness and to create a formal mechanism for designating wilderness.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Mountain_Wilderness