 Included in the MCNCA is the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness (BRCW) with extending into eastern Grand County, Utah at the MCNCA's western boundary.The MCNCA is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System, and was officially designated on October 24, 2000, when the Colorado Canyons National Conservation Area and Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness Act of 2000 became Public Law 106-353.The NCA was renamed after Congressman Scott McInnis on January 1, 2005.