Ishi Wilderness
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IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
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Black Rock with Mill Creek in foreground
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 Map of the state of California
Map of the state of California
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| Location | Tehama County, California, Sierra/Cascade region |
| Nearest city | Red Bluff |
| Coordinates | 40°08′05″N 121°45′19″W / 40.13472°N 121.75528°WCoordinates: 40°08′05″N 121°45′19″W / 40.13472°N 121.75528°W |
| Area | 41,339 acres (167.29 km2) |
| Established | 1984 |
| Governing body | U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management |
The Ishi Wilderness is a 41,339 acre (167 km2)wilderness area located on the Lassen National Forest in the Shasta Cascade foothills of northern California, United States. The Ishi Wilderness is located approximately twenty miles east of Red Bluff, California. The wilderness was created when the US Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984. The land is etched by wind and water, and dotted with basalt outcroppings, caves, and unusual pillar lava formations. The land is a series of east-west running ridges framed by rugged river canyons, with the highest ridges attaining elevations of 4,000 feet (1,200 m). Deer Creek and Mill Creek are the principal drainages and flow into the Sacramento River.
The Ishi Wilderness is the only protected area in California that preserves a significant portion of the Sierra/Cascade foothill region of the southernmost Cascade Ranges.
Ishi is the name given by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to the last surviving Native American from the Yahi Yana tribe. The Yahi Yana tribe had lived in the area for over three thousand years. Sometime after 1850, white settlers moving into the area killed all but a few of the Yahi. A few escaped and hid for years in the harsh wild country. Only what the Yahi left in the earth behind them remains today to tell their story.
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