Forest Reserves as Game Preserves 



THE BLACK MESA FOREST RESERVE OF ARIZONA AND 

 ITS AVAILABILITY AS A GAME PRESERVE. 



The Black Mesa Forest Reserve lies in central- 

 eastern Arizona, and contains 1,658,880 acres, is 

 about 180 miles long in a northwesterly and south- 

 easterly direction and a direct continuation southeast- 

 erly from the San Francisco Mountain Forest Reserve. 

 On the north it contains a part of the Mogollon Mesa, 

 which is covered with a magnificent open forest of 

 Arizona yellow pine {Pinus ponderosa), in which there 

 is an abundance of bunch grass and here and there 

 are beautiful grassy parks. To the southeast the 

 reserve covers a large part of the White Mountains, 

 one of the largest areas of generally high elevation 

 in Arizona. The yellow pine forest, similar in char- 

 acter to that on the Mogollon Mesa, is found over a 

 large part of the reserve between 7,000 and 8,500 feet 

 altitude, and its general character is shown in the 

 accompanying view. 



The Black Mesa Reserve is irregular in outline. 

 The large compact areas at each end are joined by a 

 long, narrow strip, very irregular in outline and less 

 than a township broad at various points. It lies 

 along the southern border of the Great Colorado 

 Plateau, and covers the southern and western borders 



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