page_title: Ironwood Forest National Monument
section_title: Flora and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Ironwood Forest National Monument / Flora and fauna
caption_attribution_description: Taking its name from one of the longest living trees in the Arizona desert, the 129,000-acre Ironwood Forest National Monument is a true Sonoran Desert showcase. Keeping company with the ironwood trees are mesquite, palo verde, creosote, and saguaro, blanketing the monument floor beneath rugged mountain ranges named Silver Bell, Waterman and Sawtooth. In between, desert valleys lay quietly to complete the setting.Elevations here range from 1,800 to more than 4,200 feet. Three areas within the monument, the Los Robles Archeological District, the Mission of Santa Ana del Chiquiburitac and the Cocoraque Butte Archeological District, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Learn more about Ironwood Forest NM: www.blm.gov/az/st/en/prog/blm_special_areas/natmon/ironwo... Photo: Bob Wick, BLM California
context_page_description: Ironwood Forest National Monument is located in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Created by Bill Clinton by Presidential Proclamation 7320 on June 9, 2000, the monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. The monument covers 129,055 acres, of which 59,573 acres are non-federal and include private land holdings and Arizona State School Trust lands.
  A significant concentration of ironwood trees is found in the monument, along with two federally recognized endangered animal and plant species. More than 200 Hohokam and Paleo-Indian archaeological sites have been identified in the monument, dated between 600 and 1450.
caption: Ironwood Forest National Monument, Arizona.
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