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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 ...
Map of wilderness areas in the Gila National Forest. The Gila National Forest is a United States national forest in New Mexico.Established in 1905, it now covers approximately 2,710,659 acres (10,969.65 km 2), making it the sixth largest national forest in the continental United States.
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]
Blue Range Wilderness, along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Gila Wilderness, is part of Gila National Forest. It is located on the western border of New Mexico and west of U.S. Route 180 between Reserve and Glenwood. The wilderness is crossed by the Mogollon Rim. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1980. [2]
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).
The community of Gila sits near the center of a narrow irrigated strip of land, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in length, along both sides of the Gila River. Upstream from Gila and the irrigated strip, the river emerges from the large and rugged Gila Wilderness and downstream it enters a crumpled landscape that is mostly uninhabited.
A map of the Wilderness Areas in Gila National Forest, including Aldo Leopold On September 18, 1879, the Apache war chief Victorio and his warriors ambushed 100 Buffalo soldiers (African-Americans) of the 9th Cavalry and Navajo scouts on the eastern edge of the Black Range and the Wilderness near Las Animas Creek.
The Gila River has its source in western New Mexico, in Sierra County on the western slopes of the Continental Divide in the Black Range. It flows southwest through the Gila National Forest, the Gila Wilderness, and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, then westward into Arizona, past the town of Safford.