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Southern Nevada Wilderness Areas, Lime Canyon |
 | | Lime Canyon is a medium sized (23,233 acres) wilderness area that includes a long, disjointed, and sparsely vegetated carbonate ridge (elevations to 4,406 feet), deep canyons that cut through the ridge, and desert bajadas that overlook the Overton Arm of Lake Mead (elevations to 1,475 feet). |
 | | The ridges are rocky and sparsely vegetated with a variety of Mojave Desert scrub species that include creosote bush, catclaw acacia, yucca, ephedra, buckwheat, a few cacti (e.g., beavertail and mound cactus). |
 | | The highest elevation is 4,406 feet at the south end of Lime Ridge, and the lowest elevations on are the bajadas on the northwest edge of the wilderness area. |
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