Chapter 1: Central Arizona Highlands

Peter F. Ffolliott

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Chapter 1: Central Arizona Highlands

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Peter F. Ffolliott

Year:

1999

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Baker, Jr., Malchus B., compiler. History of watershed research in the Central Arizona Highlands. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-29. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 1-6.

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Abstract

The Central Arizona Highlands are a distinct biogeographic, climatic, and physiographic province that forms a diverse ecotone between the larger Colorado Plateau to the north and the Sonoran Desert ecoregions to the south (figure 1). The Highlands coincide approximately with the Arizona Transition Zone identified by ecologists, geologists and others. This region is one of the last in the Southwestern United States that was settled by European immigrants.

Parent Publication

History of watershed research in the Central Arizona Highlands

Keywords

watershed management, water yield, hydrology, mixed conifer, ponderosa pine, pinyonjuniper, chaparral, riparian, vegetation treatment

Citation

Ffolliott, Peter F. 1999. Chapter 1: Central Arizona Highlands. In: Baker, Jr., Malchus B., compiler. History of watershed research in the Central Arizona Highlands. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-29. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 1-6.