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Santa Rosa Wilderness
The
Santa Rosa Wilderness
is a
wilderness area
in Southern California, in the
Santa Rosa Mountains
of
Riverside
and
San Diego
counties,
California
. It is in the
Colorado Desert
section of the
Sonoran Desert
, above the
Coachella Valley
and
Lower Colorado River Valley
regions in a
Peninsular Range
, between
La Quinta
to the north and
Anza Borrego Desert State Park
to the south. The
United States Congress
established the wilderness in 1984 with the passage of the
California Wilderness Act
(Public Law 98-425), managed by the both
US Forest Service
(
San Bernardino National Forest
, 13,801 acres) and the
Bureau of Land Management
(58,458 acres ). In 2009, the
Omnibus Public Land Management Act
(P.L. 111-11) was signed into law which added more than . Most of the Santa Rosa Wilderness is within the
Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
.
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