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The mission statement of the Arizona State Land Department is to manage state trust lands and resources to enhance value and optimize economic return for the trust beneficiaries, consistent with sound stewardship, conservation, and business management principles supporting socioeconomic goals for citizens here today and generations yet to come.
An Arizona state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Arizona preserved by the state for its natural, cultural, or recreational resources. The state park system in Arizona includes both state parks and state historic parks, as well as other designations such as natural areas and recreation areas.
Geography of Arizona. Arizona is a landlocked state situated in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It has a vast and diverse geography famous for its deep canyons, high- and low-elevation deserts, numerous natural rock formations, and volcanic mountain ranges. Arizona shares land borders with Utah to the north, the Mexican ...
The Tohono O'odham Nation governs four separate pieces of land, including the Tohono O'odham and San Xavier Indian Reservations and the San Lucy district near Gila Bend. Tonto Apache Reservation: Tonto Apache: Dilzhę́’é 1974 120 0.13 (0.34) Gila: White Mountain Apache Reservation: Apache (White Mountain) Dził Łigai Si'án N'dee 1891 13,409
Arizona is known as the Copper State because it produces two-thirds of US copper annually. Laramide copper porphyry deposits are common around Tucson and include the Twin Buttes, Sierrita-Esperanza, Rosemont, Silver Bell and Mission-Pima mines, as well as the historical Ajo mine to the west.
The Gadsden Purchase ( Spanish: Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") [ 2] is a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km 2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west ...
Megaregion extending from Prescott to Nogales. Arizona transition zone. Mogollon Rim and. White Mountains (Arizona) in east. the transition zone region. (diagonal across Arizona–NW-to-E-central); Colorado Plateau to northeast, lower level deserts of Basin and Range to west- (NW), SW, and south. Canyon Lands. Monument Valley.
Some 21 million acres (85,000 km 2) of public lands, almost one-eighth of the area of Arizona and New Mexico, were now to be administered by the new Forest Service. In 1908, the Coconino National Forest was established from parts of the Tonto , Black Mesa , Grand Canyon , and entire San Francisco Mountains National Forests .