It’s a preserve of rugged rock summits, bounding bighorn sheep and some of the longest-living trees in the Sonoran Desert — but many Tucsonans have never been there even though it lies just northwest ...

MARANA, Ariz. (KGUN) — To celebrate 25 years of the Ironwood Forest National Monument, the Friends of Ironwood Forest are hosting a free event on Saturday, March 22. The “Meet the Monument” event will ...

Ironwood Forest National Monument — home to grand stands of some of the longest-living trees in the Sonoran Desert — is little known to many Tucsonans, but an event Saturday offers an on-site ...

MARANA — On a warm Saturday morning, more than 100 protesters gathered near Waterman Peak in the Ironwood Forest National Monument to voice their support for public lands protections. At the same time ...

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The road to Ironwood Forest National Monument from Interstate 10 at Red Rock exit winds first through a subdivision, then past a cattle feedlot and fallow cotton fields edged by rough-hewn wooden ...

It seemed to happen quickly, the designation of nearly 130,000 acres in Pima and Pinal counties as the Ironwood Forest National Monument. In March last year, the Pima County Board of Supervisors ...

A BLM sign stating it is unlawful to leave shotgun shells behind is riddled with bullet holes in a wildcat shooting area in the Ironwood Forest National Monument. The BLM banned all recreational ...

Laiken Jordahl is an Arizona-based national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.