Arizona Range Reference Areas
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USDA Forest Service November 1980 General Technical Report RM-79 . Arizona Range Reference Areas Raymond M. Turner and Lee H. Applegate, Botanists U.S. Geological Survey Patricia M. Bergthold, Natural Areas Coordinator' Arizona State Parks Steve Gallizioli, Chief, Wildlife Management Division Arizona Game and Fish Department and S. Clark Martin, Principal Range Scientist2 Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station 'Now Environmental Planner, Office of Economic Planning and Development, Phoenix, Ariz. 2Now retired, formerly at the Station's Research Work Unit at Tempe, in cooperation with Arizona St.: e University. Headquarters is at Fort Collins, in cooperation with Colorado State University. Contents Page INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................... 1 EXAMPLE EXCLOSURES ................................................................................................................................................. 1 DESCRIPTION OF INCLUDED INFORMATION ............................................................................................. 2 ABBREVIATIONS LIST ............................................................................................................................................... 8 LITERATURE CITED ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 REFERENCE AREAS ....................................................................................................................................................... 10 ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT ............................................................................................. 10 ARIZONA STATE LAND DEPARTMENT ...................................................................................................... 11 BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................................. 11 Phoenix District ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 Safford District ....................................................................................................................................................... 12 Strip District ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 Yuma District ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 INDIAN RESERVATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Fort Apache ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 Papago ............................................................................................................................................................................. 15 MULTIPLE OWNERSHIP ...................................................................................................................................... 15 Arizona State Land Department and Private ........................................................................................ 15 Arizona State Land Department, Private, and USDA Forest Service .................................... 15 Arizona State Land Department and University of Arizona ....................................................... 15 Bureau of Land Management and Private ............................................................................................. 15 PRIVATE .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ................................................................................................................... 16 USDA FOREST SERVICE ......................................................................................................................................... 16 Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest ........................................................................................................... 16 Coconino National Forest ................................................................................................................................. 17 Coronado National Forest ................................................................................................................................. 18 Kaibab National Forest ...................................................................................................................................... 22 Prescott National Forest .................................................................................................................................... 23 Tonto National Forest ......................................................................................................................................... 24 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ................................................................................................................................. 27 Canyon de Chelly National Monument ..................................................................................................... 27 Casa Grande National Monument .............................................................................................................. 27 Chiricahua National Monument ................................................................................................................... 27 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area ................................................................................................... 27 Grand Canyon National Park ......................................................................................................................... 27 Montezuma Castle National Monument ................................................................................................... 27 Navajo National Monument ........................................................................................................................... 27 Organ Pipe National Monument ................................................................................................................... 27 Petrified Forest National Monument ........................................................................................................ 28 Saguaro National Monument ......................................................................................................................... 28 Tonto National Monument .............................................................................................................................. 28 Tuzigoot National Monument. ...................................................................................................................... 28 UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ................................................................................................................................. 28 ADDENDUM ....................................................................................................................................................................... 28 APPENDIX 1.—Index by County ........................................................................................................................... 29 APPENDIX 2.—Index by Date of Establishment .......................................................................................... 30 APPENDIX 3.—Index by Elevation Range ........................................................................................................ 31 APPENDIX 4.—Index by Excluded Animal ..................................................................................................... 32 APPENDIX 5.—Index by Vegetation Community .......................................................................................... 33 MAP (Pocket). Arizona Range Reference Areas Raymond M. Turner, Lee H. Applegate, Patricia M. Bergthold, Steve Gallizioli, and S. Clark Martin INTRODUCTION this list for Arizona. The Arizona State Parks Board, as administrator of the State's Natural Areas Program, Most Arizona rangeland probably has been grazed has interest in rangeland reference areas; the Arizona by livestock for more than a century. Changes in Game and Fish Department uses exclosures and vegetation on some of these rangelands are so marked remote areas as part of its wildlife research program; and so extensive that current concepts of natural the USDA Forest Service similarly uses exclosures and vegetation are based on landscapes that are quite remote areas for wildlife habitat and range research unlike those present before human obtrusion. Much of as well as for judging range conditions and trends on this vegetation change has been attributed either its grazing lands; and the U.S. Geological Survey has an directly or indirectly to livestock grazing. The role of interest in such areas for studies of the relationships grazing in changed southwestern landscapes can be between vegetation change and climate change, and evaluated by comparing vegetation