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Table 10b: Protected Areas in the United States
Portion of the Sonoran Desert Bioregion
Principal Biotic
Community |
Protected Area
Name |
Status |
Area (ha) |
| Arizona Upland |
Buckskin Mountain |
State Park |
670 |
| |
Aubrey Peak |
BLM Wilderness |
6160 |
| |
Alamo Lake |
State Park |
2,257 |
| |
Arrastra Mountain |
BLM Wilderness |
51,920 |
| |
Tres Alamos |
BLM Wilderness |
3,320 |
| |
Swansea |
BLM Wilderness |
6,560 |
| |
Rawhide Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
15,388 |
| |
Harcuver Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
10,020 |
| |
Harquahala Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
9,152 |
| |
Hummingbird Springs |
BLM Wilderness |
1,280 |
| |
Big Horn Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
8,400 |
| |
Hassayampa River Canyon |
BLM Wilderness |
4,920 |
| |
Hells Canyon |
BLM Wilderness |
3,680 |
| |
Superstition |
Forest Service Wilderness |
63,903 |
| |
Tonto |
National Monument |
448 |
| |
Lost Dutchman |
State Park |
117 |
| |
Salome Wilderness |
Forest Service Wilderness |
7,580 |
| |
Salt River Canyon |
Forest Service Wilderness |
13,120 |
| |
White Canyon |
BLM Wilderness |
2,320 |
| |
Needles Eye |
BLM Wilderness |
3,504 |
| |
Pusch Ridge |
BLM Wilderness |
22,773 |
| |
Saguaro |
National Park |
33,430 |
| |
Rincon Mountains |
Forest Service Wilderness |
15,436 |
| |
Tucson Mountain Park |
Pima County Park |
6,800 |
| |
Catalina |
State Park |
2,204 |
| |
Picacho Peak |
State Park |
1,360 |
| |
Organ Pipe Cactus |
National Monument |
132,276 |
| |
Table Top |
BLM Wilderness |
13,760 |
| |
South Madcopa Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
24,040 |
| |
North Madcopa Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
25,280 |
| |
Sierra Estrella |
BLM Wilderness |
5,760 |
| |
Woolsey Peak |
BLM Wilderness |
25,600 |
| |
Signal Mountain |
BLM Wilderness |
5,340 |
| |
New Water Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
9,840 |
| |
Cactus Plain |
BLM Wilderness Study Area |
23,640 |
| |
Eagle Tail Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
40,240 |
| Lower Colorado River Valley |
Gibralter Mountain |
BLM Wilderness |
7,516 |
| |
Trigo Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
12,120 |
| |
Cibola |
National Wildlife Refuge |
6,907 |
| |
Imperial |
National Wildlife Refuge |
10,306 |
| |
Kofa |
National Wildlife Refuge |
266,160 |
| |
Salton Sea |
National Wildlife Refuge |
800 |
| |
Casa Grande Ruins |
National Monument |
472 |
| |
Muggins Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
3,070 |
| |
Cabeza Prieta |
National Wildlife Refuge |
344,000 |
| |
Mohawk Mountains and Sand Dunes |
BLM Area of Critical Environmental
Concern |
45,200 |
| |
Tinajas Altas |
BLM Area of Critical Environmental
Concern |
21,200 |
| |
Gran Desierto Dunes and Yuma Dunes |
BLM Area of Critical Environmental
Concern |
10,200 |
| |
Anza Borrego Desert |
State Wilderness |
-- |
| |
Carrizo Gorge |
BLM Wilderness |
6,280 |
| |
Big Maria Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
19,030 |
| |
Santa Rosa |
BLM Wilderness |
25,736 |
| |
Chemehuevi Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
25,728 |
| |
Chuckwalla Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
32,308 |
| |
Coyote Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
6,800 |
| |
Fish Creek Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
10,376 |
| |
Indian Pass |
BLM Wilderness |
13,542 |
| |
Jacumba |
BLM Wilderness |
13,468 |
| |
Little Chuckwalla Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
11,952 |
| |
Little Picacho |
BLM Wilderness |
13,440 |
| |
Mecca Hills |
BLM Wilderness |
9,680 |
| |
North Algodones Dunes |
BLM Wilderness |
12,896 |
| |
Orocopia Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
16,294 |
| |
Palen/McCoy |
BLM Wilderness |
108,252 |
| |
Palo Verde Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
12,924 |
| |
Picacho Peak |
BLM Wilderness |
3,080 |
| |
Rice Valley |
BLM Wilderness |
16,328 |
| |
Riverside Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
8,952 |
| |
Sawtooth Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
14,032 |
| |
Stepladder Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
32,640 |
| |
Turtle Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
57,800 |
| |
Whipple Mountains |
BLM Wilderness |
31,008 |
| Semidesert Grassland |
Muleshoe Ranch |
Nature Conservancy Preserve and
BLM Cooperative Management Area |
19,248 |
| |
Empire Cienega |
BLM Natural Resource Conservation
Area |
28,000 |
| |
Research Ranch |
Audubon Society |
3,200 |
| |
Canelo Hills Cienega |
Nature Conservancy Preserve |
140 |
| |
Buenos Aires |
National Wildlife Refuge |
47,200 |
| Riparian Deciduous Forests |
San Pedro |
BLM Riparian National Conservation
Area |
|
| |
San Pedro River |
Nature Conservancy Preserve |
328 |
| |
Patagonia-Sonofta Creek |
Nature Conservancy Preserve |
300 |
| |
Cienega Creek |
Pima County Natural Preserve |
1,592 |
| |
Aravaipa Canyon |
BLM Wilderness Area/ Nature Conservancy
Preserve |
24,582 |
| |
Hassayampa River Preserve |
Nature Conservancy Preserve |
140 |
| |
Bill Williams River |
National Wildlife Refuge |
2,442 |
| |
Redfield Canyon |
BLM Wilderness |
2,640 |
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