Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: National Wildlife Refuges in Arizona, Wilderness Areas of Arizona, Galiuro Wilderness, List of Arizona Wilderness Areas, Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Sierra Estrella, Kanab Creek Wilderness, Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness, Superstition Mountains, Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Tumamoc Hill, Warm Springs Wilderness, Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, Wet Beaver Wilderness, Rincon Mountains, Arrastra Mountain Wilderness, Mount Trumbull Wilderness, Kachina Peaks Wilderness, Eagletail Mountains Wilderness, Upper Burro Creek Wilderness, Havasu Wilderness, Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness, Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness, Coyote Mountains Wilderness, Imperial Reservoir, Sycamore Canyon, West Clear Creek Wilderness, Hells Canyon Wilderness, Aubrey Peak Wilderness, San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area, Muggins Mountains Wilderness, Mount Tipton Wilderness, Harquahala Mountains, Fishhooks Wilderness, Needle's Eye Wilderness, Salt River Canyon Wilderness, Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge, Trigo Mountains Wilderness, Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, Kendrick Mountain Wilderness, Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Cabeza Prieta Wilderness, Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge, Apache Creek Wilderness, Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, Fossil Springs Wilderness, Canelo Hills Cienega Reserve, Mount Logan Wilderness, Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness, Paiute Wilderness, East Cactus Plain Wilderness, Salome Wilderness, Sierra Ancha Wilderness, San Pedro River Preserve, List of Wildlife Refuges of the Lower Colorado River Valley. Excerpt: Galiuro Wilderness is a 76,317-acre (309 km) wilderness area encompassing the mid to upper slopes of the Galiuro Mountains. It is...

Arizonas 20 national parks and monuments celebrate the natural wonders and rich heritage of Arizona, preserved through the efforts of countless citizens and the American Antiquities Act of 1906. Aggressively implemented by eight US presidents, this legislation permits the president to unilaterally proclaim sites as national monuments without congressional action. The Antiquities Act was applied in Arizona 23 times, more so than any other state in the union. Using more than 200 historical photographs, many of which have never been published, this book contains the stories of the creation of each of Arizonas national parks and monuments, emphasizing the importance of the landscape and cultural heritage to Arizonas identity.

Best-selling series of field guides provide a simplified introduction to the flora, fauna, and outstanding natural attractions in California, Florida, Alaska, and Arizona.

Winner of the Alfred B. Thomas Award and sponsored by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, Revolutionary Parks tells the surprising story of how forty national parks were created in Mexico during the latter stages of the first social revolution of the twentieth century. By 1940 Mexico had more national parks than any other country. Together they protected more than two million acres of land in fourteen states. Even more remarkable, Lázaro Cárdenas, president of Mexico in the 1930s, began to promote concepts akin to sustainable development and ecotourism. Conventional wisdom indicates that tropical and post-colonial countries, especially in the early twentieth century, have seldom had the ability or the ambition to protect nature on a national scale. It is also unusual for any country to make conservation a political priority in the middle of major reforms after a revolution. What emerges in Emily Wakild’s deft inquiry is the story of a nature protection program that takes into account the history, society, and culture of the times. Wakild employs case studies of four parks to show how the revolutionary momentum coalesced to create early environmentalism in Mexico. According to Wakild, Mexico’s national parks were the outgrowth of revolutionary affinities for both rational science and social justice. Yet, rather than reserves set aside solely for ecology or politics, rural people continued to inhabit these landscapes and use them for a range of activities, from growing crops to producing charcoal. Sympathy for rural people tempered the radicalism of scientific conservationists. This fine balance between recognizing the morally valuable, if not always economically profitable, work of rural people and designing a revolutionary state that respected ecological limits proved to be a radical episode of government foresight.