The Southwestern Region is 20.6 million acres. There are six national forests in Arizona, five national forests and a national grassland in New Mexico, and one national grassland each in Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle.The region ranges in elevation from 1,600 feet above sea level and an annual rain fall of 8 inches in Arizona's lower Sonoran Desert to 13,171-foot high Wheeler Peak and over 35 inches of precipitation a year in northern New Mexico. map of forest locations »
New Website!
Have you noticed our new look? The layout and navigation have changed. All Forest Service sites are implementing this new design to provide you with information in a more consistent and uniform manner. But not all our sites are quite there yet. In the Southwestern Region, the Apache-Sitgreaves, Cibola, Gila, Kaibab, Lincoln, and Tonto forests have completed the move to this new design. Take a look at their sites--they provide more extensive recreation information and maps, as well as other updated information.
If you cannot find the information you're looking for or have comments on our new site, please contact us.
We are requesting applications for forest restoration projects on forest lands in New Mexico. Applicants are encouraged to submit applications for projects that facilitate landscape-scale, multi-juridicational efforts. Applications deadline is 5 p.m., February 27, 2012.
White-nose syndrome is a fungal disease that has killed more than 1 million bats across the notheast and mid-Atlantic U.S. in the last 4 years and continues unchecked. It has not been found in Arizona or New Mexico. We are working together with many state, federal and private organizations to protect our bats and cave resources. This includes starting decontamination procedures for National Forest lands; and white-nose syndrome surveillance for early detection of the disease.
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Information on bark beetle effects.
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