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Golden Horn Roadless Area |
 | | The Liberty Bell roadless area is home to North Gardner Mountain, highest peak in Okanogan County at 8956 feet, and sitting astride the Ross Lake-Jack Mountain fault, a major fault system delineating the Methow Block of sedimentary rocks from the Chelan rocks to the west. |
 | | The vegetation of Liberty Bell roadless area is very complex, and like Golden Horn, it passes from the easternmost sagebrush-steppe through a mixture of young and old conifer types and avalanche chutes, shrubfields, diverse subalpine forests, on up to alpine ice and talus. |
 | | Liberty Bell continues further south in the Wolf Creek drainage, where available precipitation is lighter, and the vegetation is dominated by Douglas fir and ponderosa pine, with frequent breaks in the canopy filled in by sagebrush-steppe. |
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