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The wilderness includes mesquite, Apache pine and is the northernmost home of the Chihuahua pine. [8] Gila contains one of the world's largest and healthiest ponderosa pine forests. [9] Arizona sycamore, walnut, maple, ash, cottonwood, alder and willow trees are found along rivers and in canyons. [2] Gila is home of predators such as the bobcat ...
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is a U.S. National Monument created to protect Mogollon cliff dwellings in the Gila Wilderness on the headwaters of the Gila River in southwest New Mexico. The 533-acre (2.16 km 2) national monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt through executive proclamation on November 16, 1907. [3]
Gila National Forest is probably best known for Wilderness, containing 789,385 acres within three designated wilderness areas: the Gila Wilderness, Aldo Leopold Wilderness, and Blue Range Wilderness. The Gila Wilderness was the first area to bear that designation in the country and the world. When it was designated on June 3, 1924, it included ...
Jun. 2—SILVER CITY — While hiking a ridgeline trail, one's vision of the Gila Wilderness can be funneled like the wind between towering green hills and craggy mesas. It's a phenomenon that ...
Jun. 1—Some of Jesse Deubel's best memories are rooted in the rugged terrains of the Aldo Leopold and Gila Wilderness areas of southwestern New Mexico. Deubel was 11 when he first accompanied ...
It is located in Catron County in the Gila Wilderness, part of the Gila National Forest. It lies about 15 miles (24 km) east of the town of Glenwood (on U.S. Route 180 ). Like all of the surrounding mountains, Whitewater Baldy is part of the Mogollon-Datil volcanic field , and consists of volcanic materials formed between forty and twenty-five ...
Jun. 2—SILVER CITY — While hiking a ridgeline trail, one's vision of the Gila Wilderness can be funneled like the wind between towering green hills and craggy mesas. It's a phenomenon that ...
Most of the Mogollon Mountains range is protected within the Gila Wilderness, in the Gila National Forest. The highest point in the range is Whitewater Baldy which, at 10,895 ft (3,321 m), is the highest point in southwestern New Mexico. The range also contains five other peaks over 10,000 feet, most notably Mogollon Baldy 10,778 ft (3,285 m).