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John Muir Wilderness Area

Named for the naturalist who devoted much of his life to protecting the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite regions, this wilderness area (around 600,000 acres) abuts Kings Canyon and Sequoia national p arks and several other wilderness areas subsumed under the Inyo National Forest.

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