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    Sonoran Desert National Monument is south of Goodyear and Buckeye and east of Gila Bend, Arizona. Created by Presidential proclamation on January 17, 2001...
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    The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora,...
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    County of central Arizona. The area lies on the northeastern edge of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion, an arid habitat with annual rainfall of about 16 inches (400 mm)...
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    Ironwood Forest National Monument is located in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Created by Bill Clinton by Presidential Proclamation 7320 on June 9, 2000...
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  • Flora of the Sonoran Desert includes six subdivisions based on vegetation types.: 2–3  Two are north of the boundary between the United States and Mexico...
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    montane and desert habitats of the San Bernardino Mountains, southern Mojave Desert, and northwestern Colorado Desert. The national monument protects a...
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    and other desert flora native to the Yuma Desert section of the Sonoran Desert region grow in the park. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is 517 sq mi...
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    The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and the northwest of Mexico. It lies in the Salton...
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  • the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act the area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Sonoran Desert National Monument south of Interstate...
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    Ruins National Monument Coronado National Forest (part) Hohokam Pima National Monument Ironwood Forest National Monument (part) Sonoran Desert National Monument...
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    portions of the Mexican Plateau. It is bordered on the west by the Sonoran Desert, the Colorado Plateau, and the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range...
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    County – north Sonoran Desert National Monument (part) Tonto National Forest (part) Maricopa County has 14 regional parks: Adobe Mountain Desert Park Chaparral...
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    Bluff National Monument". National Park Service. August 23, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2009. "Sonoran Desert National Monument". Bureau of Land Management...
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    open to the public. The Sonoran Desert Inventory and Monitoring Network of which the DRLC is part, covers 10 national monuments or parks in Arizona and...
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    plant category in the national monument is collectively known as desert scrub and includes Sonoran Cresosote Scrub and Sonoran Mixed Woody and Succulent...
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    southeast by Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Located within the Yuma Desert, a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert, the refuge was originally...
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    Colorado Desert and Yuha Desert branches of the Sonoran Desert, in the far southeasternmost portion of Southern California. The Low Desert is distinguished...
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  • Thumbnail for Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument
    The Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument is a United States national monument in the state of New Mexico, managed by the Bureau of Land Management...
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    000 km2). The Sonoran Desert is a desert located in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is the second largest hot desert in North America...
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    Olneya (redirect from Desert Ironwood)
    desert ironwood, or palo fierro in Spanish. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Olneya. This tree is part of the western Sonoran Desert in...
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    Wilderness, divided by Arizona State Route 238 all within the Sonoran Desert National Monument. Arizona portal Mountains portal List of mountain ranges of...
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    and Utah. The Mojave Desert, together with the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, form a larger North American Desert. Of these, the Mojave...
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    Bursera microphylla (category North American desert flora)
    Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Ironwood Forest National Monument, Sonoran Desert National Monument, El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve...
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    and ʔamay, "up, above") is a national monument that protects approximately 506,000 acres (2,050 km2) of the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada. President...
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    In the United States, a national monument is a protected area that can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation...
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    designations of national monuments made since 1996. The order applies to all new monuments greater than 100,000 acres in size and monuments that were expanded...
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    Cactus National Monument, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Coronado National Forest, Sonoran Desert National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument...
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    Abbey was a park ranger at Arches National Monument in 1956 and 1957, where he kept journals that became his book Desert Solitaire. The success of Abbey's...
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  • designation. Wilderness area List of U.S. National Forests List of U.S. National Parks United States National Monument Intact forest landscape 16 U.S. Code...
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  • Thumbnail for Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
    Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is a United States national monument that protects about 900,000 acres (3,600 km2) surrounding...
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