Graphic examples of the negative impacts of cattle grazing upon the natural resources of Arizona.
Grazed Riparian Areas
- Indian Creek, Middle Water Spring
- Long Gulch grazing allotment, Prescott National Forest, July 2001
- Indian Creek, Upper Water Spring
- Rice Peak grazing allotment, Prescott National Forest, July 2001
- Black Canyon Creek
- Bumble Bee grazing allotment, Arizona BLM Phoenix Office, July 1999
- Vekol Wash
- South Vekol grazing allotment, Arizona BLM Phoenix Office, November
1998
- Agua Fria River
- Box Bar grazing allotment, Arizona BLM Phoenix
Office, July 1997
- Lower Tonto Creek
- Tonto Basin grazing allotment, Tonto National Forest, November 1997
- Dry Creek
- V Bar grazing allotment, Prescott National Forest, July 1999
- Cave Creek
- Cartwright grazing allotment, Tonto National Forest, April 1994
- Mcgregor Springs
- Santa Maria Ranch grazing allotment, Arizona BLM Phoenix Office,
September 1994
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Photo Point Comparisons
- San Pedro River
- Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona BLM Tucson Office,
1984 and 1998
- Little Colorado River
- Greer Valley, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, July 1988 and August
1995
- West Fork Pinto Creek
- Brushiest grazing allotment, Tonto National Forest, May 1992 and
May 2001
- Mint Wash
- Granite grazing allotment, Prescott National Forest, January 1990
and June 1979
- Pinto Creek
- Pinto Creek grazing allotment, Tonto National Forest, May 1992 and
May 2000
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Grazed Uplands
- Terry Flat
- Stone Creek Grazing Allotment, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest,
August 2001. (Escudilla Mountain is in the background.)
- Sycamore Grazing Allotment
- Verde Ranger District, Prescott National Forest, July 2001. (Located
within the Agua Fria grasslands.)
- Desert Wildflowers
- No grazing right side of the fence, grazing on the left side, Burro
Creek grazing allotment, Arizona BLM Kingman Office, March 1993
- Warsaw Pasture
- Montana grazing allotment, Coronado National Forest, July 2000.
(The permittee is the husband of Arizona Game & Fish Commissioner Sue Chilton.)<
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Ungrazed Riparian Areas
- Hulsey Creek
- Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, August 2001
- Aravaipa Creek
- Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness, Arizona BLM Tucson Office, September
1997
- Cienega Creek
- Empire-Cienega Resource Conservation Area, Arizona BLM Tucson Office,
May 1995
- Seven Springs
- Tonto National Forest, April 1994
- Sacaton Bottomlands
- Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch, National Audubon Society, April
1995
- Bonita Creek
- Gila Box Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona BLM Safford
Office, October 1992
- Canyon Creek
- Tonto National Forest, July 1991
- Arivaca Cienega
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,
July 1993
- Little Colorado River
- Mt. Baldy Wilderness, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, July 2001
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Ungrazed Uplands
- Bald Hill
- Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch, National Audubon Society, April
1995
- Top of Dutchwoman Butte
- Relict desert grassland, Tonto Basin, Tonto National Forest, October
1997
- Sonoran Desert Uplands
- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, March, 1998
- Sonoran Desert Uplands
- Usery Mountain Park, Maricopa County, March, 2001
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* Nearly all of these areas have been grazed by livestock in the past. It's almost impossible to find a place in the West that's NEVER suffered from livestock.
