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Pisgah Crater is a cinder cone approximately 75 meters
(250 feet) high, surrounded by a number of lava flows spreading outward in
several directions. Some of these flows are quite recent and all date from the
late Pleistocene. There are lava
tubes present. The ecotone of the jagged lava and the windblown sand
forms a habitat conducive to a number of animals including the lyre snake,
Trimorphodon lambda. Species of scorpions of the genus Vejovis are found here
and it is the type locality of several. There
is also an anomalous color form of the canyon mouse, Perornyscus crinitus,
present. Most of the area is barren; however, portions support
sparse stands of creosote bush scrub. Integrity: There
is a road to the cone and it is being mined for cinders. Use: Research,
educational, observational. Some
private, and portions restricted. December 1976
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