The Tule Mountain WSA is located in Northeastern Lassen Country, California with approximately 750 acres lying in Southern Modoc Country. The WSA includes 16998 acres of Bureau of land Managent (BLM) land and 862 acres of private inholdings .
The WSA is roughly diamond-shaped.The northeastern boundary is an annually maintained dirt road known as the Tule Mountain Access Road.There are four places along this boundary where the WSA line deviates from the access road to exclude private land which intrude into the WSA. The southeastern boundary is an unimproved dirt road from McKabe Flat to the north end of Moon Lake continuing along the northwest shoreline to the south end of the WSA. The entire western boundary is a maintenance road which parallels the Southern Pacific Railroad. There are four exceptions along the boundary where private land intrude into the WSA and the boundary is drawn to exclude there from the WSA.
The main feature of the WSA is a rounded mountain with its apex approximately centered in the unit. Elevation ranges from 4900' to 7098' which is the highest point of BLM land in the Alturas Resource Area. The mountain is drained by many shallow, intermittent drainages that area dry for most of year. The WSA is in the sagebrush steppe ecotype with sagebrush-juniper being the dominant vegetative community. Upper elevations include approximately 150 acres of white fir/Jeffrey pine classified as commercial timber land.
The WSA was studies under Section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and suitability recommendations were analyzed in the Alturas Resource Area Final Environmental Impact Statement of 1987.Two different suitability recommendations were analyzed in the EIS : an all-wilderness alternative and a no-wilderness alternative.