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United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

Coronado National Forest
300 W. Congress Street
Tucson, AZ, USA 85701
(520) 388-8300
(520) 388-8304 TTY

  

 Welcome

map: location of Coronado National Forest in SE AZ

The Coronado National Forest covers 1,780,000 acres of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Elevations range from 3000 feet to 10,720 feet in twelve widely scattered mountain ranges or "sky islands" that rise dramatically from the desert floor, supporting plant communities as biologically diverse as those encountered on a trip from Mexico to Canada.

Views are spectacular from these mountains, and visitors may experience all four seasons during a single day's journey, wandering through the desert among giant saguaro cactus and colorful wildflowers in the morning, enjoying lunch beside a mountain stream, and playing in the snow later in the afternoon.

The sky islands of the Coronado National Forest are unique and surprising, offering year-round recreation opportunities.


PUBLIC NOTICES and PROJECTS

Forest-Wide

Review of Two Forest Service Recreation Fee Proposals in Arizona Scheduled

Recreation Facility Analysis

Douglas Ranger District

Proposed Replacement of Silver Creek Bridge on Forest Road 42B:

Proposed Construction of Weirs in the North Fork of Pinery Creek and East Fork of Turkey Creek on the Douglas Ranger District:

Nogales Ranger District

The proposed Forest Service action is the realignment of the S-curve approaches to two culvert-box bridges that cross Madera Creek and a tributary and the replacement of two one-lane bridges with two new, two-lane concrete bridges. This project is being funded by appropriations of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Proposed Decommissioning of Unauthorized Roads

  • Scoping Notice: Invitation to Comment (pdf, 206 kb)
  • Map (pdf, 1.8 mb)
  • Attachment 1 -- List of Unauthorized Roads Proposed for Decommissioning (pdf, 74 kb)

Proposed septic system replacement project at the Florida Work Center:

Vegetation management project proposed for Lower Madera Canyon

Proposed project at Peña Blanca Lake to change the location of the boat ramp and associated parking lot:

Proposed well and pipeline development project at two locations on the Nogales Ranger District: Wise Mesa and Negro Tank:

Proposal by the Smithsonian Institute to increase the square footage of a support building for the Multi-Mirror Telescope (MMT) at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory:

Proposed road and parking lot maintenance project in Madera Canyon:

To authorize continued livestock grazing on the Lake Allotment located around Arivaca Lake:

Sierra Vista Ranger District

Proposed project is to remove nonnative fishes and bullfrogs from all surface water in the Redrock Canyon watershed:

Proposed Construction of Weirs in Scotia Creek, Sunnyside Canyon, and Copper Canyon:

Huachuca FireScape Project:

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Coronado National Forest (Forest), prepared this environmental assessment to publicly disclose the results of an environmental impact analysis of the Huachuca FireScape Project (FireScape Project). If approved, the FireScape Project would coordinate fire and fuel reduction activities with two other Federal agencies: the Department of Defense (DOD-Fort Huachuca) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (USDI), National Park Service (NPS-Coronado National Memorial). . . .

Proposal to re-authorize livestock grazing in the Redrock Pasture of the Kunde Allotment:

Safford Ranger District

Proposed Construction of a Weir in Harrison Creek at the Crossing of Harrison Canyon Road:

Piñaleno Ecosystem Restoration Project:

Restoration of Vehicular Access in High Creek Area:

New Special-Use Permits for Recreation Residences on the Safford Ranger District:

Mt. Graham International Observatory:

Santa Catalina Ranger District

Proposed Construction of Weirs along the Control Road:

Decommissioning of Non-System (Unauthorized) Roads on the Santa Catalina Ranger District

Proposed vegetation management project in three areas of the Santa Catalina District:  Spencer, Bigelow and Hunter’s Ridge

 





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