
LAND MANAGEMENT

About Land Management
The Bodie Hills region totals 121,500 acres of Bureau of Land Management lands. Most land in the Bodies is managed by BLM but there are important U.S. Forest Service lands in the eastern portion around Rough Creek and Bald Mountain (Humboldt-Toiyabe, CA & NV). There are many parcels of privately owned land in the Bodie Hills as well.
There are three BLM Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) within the Bodie Hills: Bodie, Bodie Mountain and Mt. Biedeman. Two other WSAs (Masonic Mountain and Mormon Meadow) were released with passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act (2009); even though they were released, these areas retain their wilderness character. All of these areas contain outstanding natural values and abundant opportunities for solitude, and together they form the wild backdrop of the scenic Bodie Hills landscape. Views from the Bodie Hills toward the Sierra Nevada and Mono Lake are stunning.

About Wilderness Study Areas
A Wilderness Study Area, or WSA, is an area of public land that has been inventoried by the Bureau of Land Management and found to have wilderness characteristics. WSAs are protected by law, and often have high ecological, geological, cultural, and scenic values. .
Ongoing activities such as grazing, mining of valid claims and off-road vehicle use on existing roads and trails can continue in WSAs pending Congressional action to designate an area as wilderness.
Read more about the three Bodie Hills WSAs here
