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- "Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Blue_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Blue_S

- "Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Blue_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Blue_Sky Is this an oversight?

angry_moose 3y ago
Probably due to a jurisdictional mess. The article says the mountain was renamed by the US Board of Geographic Names (and possibly the Department of the Interior). Wilderness Areas seem to be managed by some combination of the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife, and Bureau of Land Management; and might require congress to get involved to rename it (Congress creates them, unclear whether they have to be involved to rename them). There's a whole mess of oddball things like this in Minnesota, which has been reverting a lot of things back to indigenous names. The weird conflicts are slowly getting sorted out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wilderness_Preservation_System#Managing_agencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wilderness_Preservati... Edit: Yeah, I think its Congress. It required a bill to rename the Olympic Wilderness to the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness in 2016 (different "Evans"). https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/dec/07/olympic-wilderness-re-named-sen-evans/ https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/dec/07/olympic...
- throw0101c 3y ago
  "Governing body: U.S. Forest Service" But: > The Mount Evans Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest about 30 miles (48 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The wilderness area is named after Mount Evans.[2][3][a] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Evans_Wilderness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Evans_Wilderness [a] In September 2023, Mount Evans was renamed to Mount Blue Sky.[4]
Freak_NL 3y ago
Also the road leading up to the summit, state highway 5, the Mount Evans Highway.

- "Mount Blue Sky is the highest peak in the Mount Evans Wilderness..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Blue_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Blue_Sky Is this an oversight?

angry_moose 3y ago

Probably due to a jurisdictional mess. The article says the mountain was renamed by the US Board of Geographic Names (and possibly the Department of the Interior). Wilderness Areas seem to be managed by some combination of the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife, and Bureau of Land Management; and might require congress to get involved to rename it (Congress creates them, unclear whether they have to be involved to rename them). There's a whole mess of oddball things like this in Minnesota, which has been reverting a lot of things back to indigenous names. The weird conflicts are slowly getting sorted out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wilderness_Preservation_System#Managing_agencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wilderness_Preservati... Edit: Yeah, I think its Congress. It required a bill to rename the Olympic Wilderness to the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness in 2016 (different "Evans"). https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/dec/07/olympic-wilderness-re-named-sen-evans/ https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2016/dec/07/olympic...

throw0101c 3y ago
"Governing body: U.S. Forest Service" But: > The Mount Evans Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest about 30 miles (48 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The wilderness area is named after Mount Evans.[2][3][a] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Evans_Wilderness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Evans_Wilderness [a] In September 2023, Mount Evans was renamed to Mount Blue Sky.[4]

Freak_NL 3y ago

Also the road leading up to the summit, state highway 5, the Mount Evans Highway.