

AZ 2. Babocomari Cienega. Acreage: 100 estimated. 



Location: Santa Cruz and Cochise counties; Mustang Mountains Quadrangle. 



Description: An outstanding marsh south of the Mogollon Rim. There is a per- 

 manent stream through it containing species of native fish and riparian species 

 of cottonwood, willow, various aquatic plants, some of them rather rare in 

 Arizona, including Oenothera rosea, with a community of dense sacaton in drier 

 areas beyond the cienega itself. The cienega extends about one-half mile along 

 Babocomari Wash and is about 1000 ft wide. 



Encroachments: Headward erosion on Babocomari Wash in the 1930s was 

 stopped by a low dam built with the help of the Soil Conservation Service. 



Ownership: Mr. Frank Brophey, Phoenix, Ariz. 85000. 



Data source: Dr. Paul S. Martin, Department of Geochronology, University of 

 Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. 85721. 



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