For five seasons she worked as a fire lookout in Saguaro National Park and
Chiricahua National Monument. It was in these "sky islands" that she first learned to love the richness and diversity of southern Arizona.
VAST PILES OF MYSTERIOUS-looking, oversized rock formations await the hiker who reaches the place Chiricahua Apache Indians named "Land of Standing Up Rocks," a place that's better known today as
Chiricahua National Monument.
"Last November, when we set out to do a mapping project on one of these sites in
Chiricahua National Monument, we found several pieces of an 18th-century Spanish flintlock," says Bruce Huckell, associate professor of anthropology.
Heupel, a law-enforcement ranger from
Chiricahua National Monument in southeastern Arizona, stepped into the chaos, looking for the worst cases.
a balancing stone formation at
Chiricahua National Monument A saguaro cactus, the state flower of Arizona, in the desert...
Visit
Chiricahua National Monument, a geological formation borne out of a 27 million year-old volcanic eruption.
Every Tuesday and Thursday there is a ride to the
Chiricahua National Monument - a geological formation borne out of a volcanic eruption 27 million years ago.
The
Chiricahua National Monument Archives yielded eight accounts of jaguarundi sightings and one account of an ocelot sighting, and U.