Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Trout Creek Mountains

Trout Creek Mountains

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 21, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 12:29, 8 November 2015 (UTC)



The Trout Creek Mountains are a Great Basin range in Oregon and Nevada in the United States. Oriented generally north–south, the mountains consist mostly of fault blocks of basalt, while the southern end has granitic outcrops. Overall, the faulted terrain is dominated by rolling hills cut by canyons. Most of the range is federal land, and there is little human development—cattle grazing and ranching are the main human uses—but former mines produced very large amounts of mercury. The public land is open to recreation but is rarely visited. It is dominated by big sagebrush and desert grasses. Sage grouse and mountain chickadee are two native bird species, and pronghorn and jackrabbit are common mammals. Despite a dry climate, rare Lahontan cutthroat trout live in a few streams after declining for much of the 20th century. In the 1980s, the effects of grazing on riparian zones and fish led to land-use conflict. The Trout Creek Mountain Working Group was formed in 1988 to resolve disagreements among ranchers, environmentalists, government agencies, and other parties. Stakeholders agreed on changes to land-use practices, and since the early 1990s, riparian zones have begun to recover.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Since May 1, there have been four TFAs about geography. The only TFA about Oregon that I see on the list is Balch Creek (September 9). The three other recent TFAs about geography are two about the U.K. and one about Pennsylvania.
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 * Promoted: 15 October 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: I don't see any recent TFAs about mountains or about Nevada on the list. Articles like this one are not often represented as TFA.
 * Support as nominator. Jsayre64   (talk)  00:21, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as peer reviewer and member of WikiProject Oregon. Finetooth (talk) 01:09, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: Another American geographic article (St. Johns River) has been scheduled for 8 November. I'm happy for this one to run, but it's likely to be in the latter part of the month. Brianboulton (talk) 09:04, 22 October 2015 (UTC)