Highest Point

2885 meters

Huachuca Mountains

The Huachuca Mountains are a gem of biological diversity. These sierra sit just north of the Sonora border with their very southern slope descending across the border into Mexico. The southwest portion are relatively remote, accessible by dirt road only. A small paved road from the north terminates at the popular Parker Canyon Lake. West of the Huachucas lie the San Rafael Valley and Canelo Hills. The north part of the range hosts Fort Huachuca, a large military reservation. The south end has a small Park Service property called Coronado National Memorial.

Analysis of fire-related Vegetation Patterns in the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, USA, and Sierra los Ajos, Sonora, Mexico

There is general interest among fire ecologists to integrate observed fire regimes into long term fire management. The United States-Mexico borderlands provide unique research opportunities to study effects of contrasting forest management activities on forest structure and pattern. To increase understanding of the range of forest stand conditions in borderland ecosystems, we compared tree crown patterns from two forests near the US- Mexico border that are managed under contrasting fire policies and have contrasting fire histories.

New photo of same Ocelot in Huachuca Mountains

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Today a new photo from May 26th, 2011 of an Ocelot in the Huachuca Mountains was released by the AZ Game and Fish Dept. The photo was given to AZGFD by two hunters who had set up an automated trail camera. The press release (attached here) says AZGFD will show the photo to biologists to determine if it is the same individual photographed on Feb. 8 of 2011.