American Big Game in its Haunts 



From the foregoing notes it is apparent that the 

 northwestern and middle portions of the Black Mesa 

 Reserve are without proper winter range for game 

 within its limits, and that the conditions are other- 

 wise unfavorable for their use as game preserves. 



THE SOUTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE BLACK MESA 

 RESERVE. 



The southeastern portion of the reserve remains to 

 be considered. The map shows this to be a rectangu- 

 lar area, about thirty by fifty miles in extent, lying 

 between the White Mountain Indian Reservation and 

 the western border of New Mexico, and covering the 

 adjacent parts of Apache and Graham counties. It 

 includes the eastern part of the White Mountains, 

 which culminate in Ord and Thomas peaks, rising 

 respectively to 10,266 feet and to 11,496 feet, on the 

 White Mountain Indian Reservation, just ofif the 

 western border of the Forest Reserve. This section 

 of the reserve is strikingly more varied in physical 

 conditions than the northern portion, as will be 

 shown by the following description : 



The northwestern part of this section, next to the 

 peaks just mentioned, is an elevated mountainous 

 plateau country forming the watershed between the 

 extreme headwaters of the Little Colorado on the 

 north and the Black and San Francisco rivers, trib- 

 utaries of the Gila, on the south. The divide between 

 the heads of these streams is so low that in the 

 midst of the undulating country, where they rise, it is 

 often diflficult to determine at first sight to which 

 drainage some of the small tributaries belong. This 

 district is largely of volcanic formation, and beds of 



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