The Antelope Valley HMA is located approximately 75 miles south of Wells, Nevada. The area is 463,540 acres in size and is 46 miles wide at its widest point and is 26 miles long. The highest point is High Peak Mountain at 9,258 feet and the lowest points are found in the valley bottoms and range around 5,000 feet. Average precipitation is approximately 7 inches on the valley bottoms and from 14 to 20 inches in the highest peaks. Most of the rainfalll occurs during the winter monthes when the plants are dormant and this creates the cold-temperate desert of which Antelop Valley HMA is a part.
Temperatures can be extreme.
The range from a high of about 100 degrees F in the summer months to a low of -15 cegrees F in the winter. The vegetation consists of mainly sagebrush with an understory of grasses on the valley bottoms and the upland vegetation contains a variety of shrubs such as snowberry, serviceberry, bitterbrush and mountain big sage. On the higher elevation mountain slopes coniferous trees such as white fir and limber pine can be found. Wild horses must share their habiatat in the Antelop Valley HMA with domestic livestock and wildlife species including elk, mule deer and pronghorn antelope. This is a U.S. Government Computer System.