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Wildflower and Wildlife Sanctuaries
Antelope Valley, Ca.

Beginning in 1958, the Department of Parks and Recreation has been acquiring land in the eastern Antelope Valley for the purpose of Wildflower and Wildlife Sanctuaries. To date, nine such sanctuaries exist as follows:

1. Alpine Butte Wildlife Sanctuary	320 acres
2. Butte Valley Wildflower Sanctuary	320 acres
3. Blalock Wildlife Sanctuary	140 acres
4. Big Rock Wash Wildlife Sanctuary	160 acres
5. Carl O. Gerhardy Wildlife Sanctuary	639 acres
6. Jackrabbit Flat Wildlife Sanctuary	114 acres
7. Mescal Wildlife Sanctuary	100 acres
8. Theodore Payne Wildlife Sanctuary	320 acres
9. Phacelia Wildflower Sanctuary	160 acres
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	2,273 acres

Click Here Click on the link above to open a map of the wildflower sanctuaries in the Antelope Valley. When the map is open you can click on each individual Sanctuary for detailed directions, flower lists, and pictures.

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