Virgin Range - Black Butte - Billy Goat Peak

This panorama was taken from the top of Bitter Ridge. In the photo you can see Black Butte, which by the way from this angle is not black, and then the Virgin Mountain Range in the very back. The Luke Whitney Petroglyphs sit right on the other side of Black Butte. The 21 Sheep Panel sits just south of Black Butte in the Red and White sandstone. If you click the picture so it is bigger you can see the road from Whitney Pockets to the Nay Ranch.On the far right hand side is Billy Goat Peak.












Gold Butte is beautiful and great country, however it is under atack. Almost all of the country that you see in this photo are up for wilderness designation. The Bitter Ridge, the Virgin Range, Billy Goat Peak and many other places contained within the Gold Butte area, are all slated to become wilderness areas.

I also learned something new today, and for anyone who gets out in the back country much, needs to take into account. It use to be that roads that were marked closed were closed, otherwise they were open. However, now this is not the case. Roads that are marked open are open otherwise they are closed. This is straight from the mouth of the BLM, The Bureau of Land Mismanagement. The title of this agency states management.

Is closure of hundreds of thousands of acres management? That is your plan for the PUBLIC lands, to close it to the public?