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ContributorsDawson, C. D. (Author)
Created1916-04-18
Description
Letter from C. D. Dawson to Carl Hayden urging him to consider the rights of miners and farmers when drawing up the boundaries for the proposed park.
ContributorsFonseca, Julia (Author) / Regan, John J. (Author) / Pima County (Ariz.). County Administrator's Office (Publisher)
Created2001-10
Description
If one species had to be chosen to preserve and restore, perhaps it should be cottonwood. Cottonwood-willow forests, where they exist and are healthy, indicated the presence of a viable riparian area, which is in turn the key to conserving great proportions of our native species. A reflection of the dire status of our riparian systems is that the Sonoran cottonwood-willow and Sonoran mesquite-cottonwood forests.