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General description
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The 129,000-acre Ironwood Forest
National Monument encompasses the Silver Bell, Ragged Top and
Sawtooth Mountains and contains one of the richest stands of
ironwood trees in the Sonoran Desert.
There are also more than 200 sites from the prehistoric
Hohokam period that have been recorded in the area.
Like the Agua Fria Monument, this area suffers from its
close proximity to an urban area, in this instance the Marana
and Tucson areas. The
area is also threatened by additional mining development, and
potential boundary decreases.
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