"To my mind these live oak-dotted hills fat with side oats grama, thse pine-clad mesas spangled with flowers, these lazy trout streams burbling along under great sycamores and cottonwoods, come near to being the cream of creation." Aldo Leopold 1937.
This landscape that so enthralled Leopold was where the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Madre kiss, where the plants and animals of the Neotropics mingle with those of the Nearctic, where jaguar and grizzly hunted the same ridges, where elk and javelina browsed and rooted cheek to jowl, where northern goshawks took thick billed parrots on the wing. Southwestern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, northwestern Chihuahua, and northeastern Sonora are a landscape of wonder, beauty, and wildness--and mind-boggling biological diversity.
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