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	Gila National Forest Campgrounds
		At the heart of the Gila National Forest are two spectacular wildernesses: the Gila, containing 558,065 acres, and the Aldo Leopold, with 202,016 acres.
		The concept of preserving wilderness areas for future generations was initiated in the Gila National Reserve, as it was called at the turn of the century, by Aldo Leopold.
		The Gila National Forest is a place to enjoy the region's natural beauty and walk in the footsteps of prehistoric Indians, Apache, and early European settlers, miners, and explorers.
	www.forestcamping.com /dow/southwst/gilainfo.htm (1006 words)

	Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument - Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
		Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived in the Gila Wilderness from the 1280s through the early 1300s.
		The monument is surrounded by the Gila National Forest and lies within the rugged Gila Wilderness, the nation’s first wilderness area.
		The wilderness designation means that the wilderness character of the area will not be altered by the intrusion of roads or other evidence of human presence.
	www.nps.gov /gicl (177 words)

	Gila National Forest: Geronimo Trail Scenic Byway, New Mexico
		Another pamphlet titled "Birds of the Gila National Forest" is also available, listing 166 species known to breed in the Gila, 114 others that are more or less regular non-breeders, and 57 species considered to be casual (recorded 3-5 times) or accidental (recorded but once or twice).
		The Aldo Leopold Wilderness is another vast wilderness (202,016 acres) along the Continental Divide, named for the early naturalist who encouraged preservation of wildlands.
		Of the many wilderness trails, the most popular are in the Gila Wilderness between the Middle Fork of the Gila River and the southwestern rim of the Mogollon Mountain Range.
	www.geronimotrail.com /gila_national_forest.html (841 words)

	Gila Wilderness
		The Gila Wilderness was established in 1924 as the first wilderness preserve in the United States.
		A tract of 438000 acres in the much larger Gila National Forest (2.7 million acres), is unspoiled with its deep canyons, high mountains, hot springs, streams and thick forests of spruce and fir.
		At its highest, the wilderness is an area of dense alpine forest with fir, spruce, and aspen.
	nm.audubon.org /iba/ibawriteups/gilawilderness.html (381 words)

	Gila Cliffs Dwellings National Monument
		Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is surrounded by Gila National Forest and lies at the edge of the Gila Wilderness, the nation's first designated wilderness area.
		This designation means that the wilderness character of the area will not be altered by the intrusion of roads or other evidence of human presence.
		Walls of the dwellings were constructed of stone from the formation exposed to the cliff, the Gila Conglomerate.
	www.rozylowicz.com /retirement/gilacliffs/gilacliffs.html (876 words)

	Gila Wilderness Expeditions. A horseback vacation in southwestern New Mexico.
		The Gila National Forest and Gila Wilderness of southwestern New Mexico, USA - is one of the most spectacular and remote regions in the Southwest.
		Because of the isolation and the lack of human presence, including roads and motorized vehicles, the terrain traversed during the Gila Nature Expedition truly is a wilderness.
		Gila National Forest, Gila Wilderness and Double E Ranch areas.
	www.gilawildernessexpeditions.com (1285 words)

	Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the Indians who lived there from the 1280s through the early 1300s.
		It is surrounded by the Gila National Forest and lies at the edge of the Gila Wilderness, the nation's first designated wilderness area.
		Administration of the monument was transferred from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the U.S. Department of the Interior on August 10, 1933.
	classic.mountainzone.com /nationalparks/gicl/index.html (605 words)

	AmericanFrontiers.net: Exhibits: The Lands: Gila Wilderness
		Scientists appreciate wilderness areas for providing examples of healthy ecosystems, which they use as models to improve the health of more developed areas.
		Wilderness benefits our planet in many ways, but it also affects us on a personal level.
		People who take the time to explore a wilderness are touched by the solitude and the increasingly rare peace, which can only be found far from "man and his own works." Those who take the time to understand a wilderness are impressed with the complex web of life found in these undisturbed areas.
	americanfrontiers.net /gila/index.php (392 words)

	Views of the National Parks
		Covering about half a million acres, the Gila Wilderness stretches roughly 27 miles from north to south and 39 miles east to west.
		Variety and complexity rule in the Gila and can be seen in climate, landscape, wildlife, and plant life.
		Summer in the Gila is much hotter, with the highest temperatures in July and August.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /views/KCs/Wilderness/HTML/UC_Gila02.htm (141 words)

	Gila
		The Gila valley was occupied by the ancestors of the Pima and Papago ethnic groups, who farmed the region by irrigation.
		In the river's headwater region are Gila National Forest and the government-preserved “unimproved” Gila Wilderness Area.
		Gila monsters (poisonous reptiles) are numerous in the Gila valley.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0820801.html (308 words)

	Gila Wilderness — New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
		The Gila Country was the territory of the Chiricahua and Mimbres Apaches.
		The Gila Country first taught Leopold to "think like a mountain," a key phrase of his, and it was here that his burgeoning philosophy first bore fruit: in 1924, stimulated by Leopold's leadership, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture created the Gila Wilderness by executive order.
		Lucky hikers have heard wolves howling at night in the Gila, but they still have to imagine an otter splashing as it frolics in a stream, a jaguar's scream, and a grizzly's ruckus as it scavenges wild plants in a meadow.
	www.nmwild.org /wilderness/gila (1420 words)

	GILA NATIONAL FOREST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1924 the 790,000 acre Gila Wilderness became the first wilderness area designated by Congress.
		Wilderness is land set aside so the natural environment is not disturbed.
		Travel in the wilderness is restricted to foot or horse-back.
	www.wnmu.edu /univ/gila.htm (177 words)

	Hiking the Gila Wilderness Area and Vicinity. New Mexico Hiking Trails. Gila National Forest.
		The Gila Wilderness Area in southwest New Mexico was the first dedicated wilderness areas in the country.
		Established in 1924, it is also one of the largest wilderness areas in the southwest at 557,873 acres (843 miles of hiking trails).
		As referenced on the Gila Wilderness topo map, the loop is comprised of trail 160 to 162 to the EE Canyon trail returning via the West Fork and the Cliff Dwellings parking area.
	www.americaswonderlands.com /Gila.htm (2979 words)

	Old West Country, Gila Cliff Dwellings Nat'l Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived there from the 1280's through the early 1300's.
		Wilderness means the character of the area will not be altered by the intrusion of roads or other evidence of human presence.
		Settlers in the early 1870's penetrated the mountain wilderness, where rise the three forks of the Gila River in search of water and fertile land on which to homestead.
	www.oldwestcountry.com /cliff_dwellings.html (1413 words)

	Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information: Gila Wilderness Guide
		At Jordan Hot Springs, in the Gila Wilderness of southwestern New Mexico, I lie full-length in the warm water.
		Gila monsters and their cousins, Mexican beaded lizards, are the only two venomous lizards in the world.
		Near the center of this last great wilderness in the Southwest, in a cave a few miles downstream from where Sapillo Creek meets the main branch of the Gila River in northern Grant County, Martin Price made his new home in June of 1983.
	www.southernnewmexico.com /Articles/Southwest/GilaWilderness/index.html (1960 words)

	Gila National Forest - Recreation: Wilderness
		The Wilderness areas on the Gila comprise a vast, roadless realm astride the Black, Mogollon, Diablo, and Blue mountain ranges, varying from grassland foothills upward through juniper woodland, ponderosa pine, and then spruce-fir forests on the high peaks.
		The 558,065-acre Gila Wilderness, created in June 1924 at the urging of the great conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold, was the world's first designated wilderness.
		The Aldo Leopold Wilderness is 202,016-acres and and straddles the Black Range on the eastern sid of the Forest
	www2.srs.fs.fed.us /r3/gila/recreation/recactivity.asp?activity=wild (244 words)

	Gila Watershed Complex — New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The main landscape feature in the area is the Gila River and the rugged box canyons through which the river flows.
		Floating the Gila River in rafts, canoes, and kayaks is also possible during the spring runoff.
		The Gila River was the center of activity for primitive peoples in the past.
	www.nmwild.org /places/sky/gilawatershed (1429 words)

	New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, Forest Subject Of Ecos' Focus
		The 1986 Gila forest plan called for an inventory to establish a baseline ecological condition for more than 50,000 acres of wetlands and river habitats.
		In related anti-grazing action, a wildlife group is attacking a state report that calls for returning cattle to the Gila Wilderness.
		In 1995 the New Mexico Department of Agriculture compared photographs of the area in the 1950s with photos of the area in the mid-1990s and concluded that the land was unhealthy because of the absence of cattle grazing.
	www.livestockweekly.com /papers/01/04/12/whlgila.asp (436 words)

	Hiking: The Wilderness Lodge is your doorway to a landscape of fantastic walks and hikes, ranging from gentle strolls ...
		Hiking: The Wilderness Lodge is your doorway to a landscape of fantastic walks and hikes, ranging from gentle strolls in the forest to a challenging hikes across country -- and the most challenging of all, the Mexico-to-Canada Continental Divide Trail.
		The Wilderness Lodge is your doorway to a landscape of fantastic walks and hikes, ranging from gentle strolls in the forest to a challenging hikes across country — and the most challenging of all, the Mexico-to-Canada Continental Divide Trail.
		You'll be hiking on a ridge between the West Fork and Middle Fork of the Gila River.
	www.gilahot.com /hiking.shtml (1075 words)

	Gila Memorial Weekend
		Erik and I decided to head to the Gila Wilderness in the Gila National Forest for our memorial day weekend.
		The Gila Wilderness is pretty far south, near the town of Truth or Consequences (yes, it's really a name, from a TV show years ago), so this is a good time to visit before things really heat up down there.
		We returned to camp for one more night of civilization before heading out for our wilderness experience, which was just in time after a family pull in with screaming kids and teenagers playing their car stereo for the whole world to hear.
	home.comcast.net /~iching/Gila_Memorial_2003/index.htm (683 words)

	Leopold on three values of wilderness
		The Gila Wilderness was originally 755,000 acres in size (almost three quarters the size of Yellowstone National Park).
		But the Gila deer herd, by then wolfless and all by lionless, soon multiplied beyond all reason, and by 1924 the deer had so eaten out the range that reduction of the herd was imperative.
		A key feature of the Wilderness Act as passed in 1964 is that it takes the decision to manage areas as wilderness out of the hands of the USFS, NPS and BLM.
	www-phil.tamu.edu /~gary/ee/wilderness.html (829 words)

	New Mexico - Gila Wilderness Expedition Ride with Hidden Trails. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gila Wilderness Nature Expedition will take you on gentle, seasoned horses through rugged, pristine canyons and mountains lying within the magnificent Bear Creek and Greenwood Canyon drainage systems, along the western edge of the legendary Gila Wilderness in southwest New Mexico.
		The Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts reach into the Gila, contributing to the dominant upland desert plant zone found over the plateaus, hills and lower mountains, and is characterized by juniper, pinion, scrub oak, yucca, agaves, mesquite, and prickly pear and cholla cactus.
		However, homesteaders and ranchers eventually moved into the Gila Valley and the area was opened for exploration and settlement.
	hiddentrails.com /usa/ir/nm-gila.htm (1457 words)

	Gila Wilderness Area Hiking - Hikes
		The Gila Wilderness is located in the Gila National Forest north of Silver City in southwest New Mexico.
		The high point of the trip occurs in the first 0.5 mile from the trailhead, and thereafter the trail slopes gradually to the...
		This enjoyable day shuttle along the northern perimeter of the Gila Wilderness begins and ends at about the same elevation, with the Black Mountain high point at its midpoint.
	www.trails.com /activity.asp?area=12514 (987 words)

	Wilderness.net- Gila Wilderness
		All of the wilderness is in New Mexico and is managed by the Forest Service.
		Read about what wilderness is, how it benefits you, how wilderness areas are designated, and what threatens wilderness today.
		Wilderness.net is a partnership project of the Wilderness Institute at The University of Montana's College of Forestry and Conservation,
	www.wilderness.net /index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&wid=205 (358 words)

	Gila Cliff Dwellings -DesertUSA
		The Mogollon band at the Gila cliff dwellings, like Mogollon bands who lived in small groups along river systems as far south as Mexico, appear to have been influenced by the Anasazi who lived to the north, in the Four Corners region, during the same period.
		Gila National Forest and the adjacent Gila Wilderness offer camping, fishing, hiking and horseback riding on over one thousand four hundred and ninety miles of scenic trails.
		The cliff dwellings are not handicapped accessible because of the steep and winding one-mile trail.
	www.desertusa.com /gila/gila_cliff.html (603 words)

	New Rental Available
		This desert retreat borders a 100-acre wildlife preserve, complete with a four-acre pond, and the free-flowing Gila River is a five-minute walk from the house.
		Nearby is the scenic Upper Gila River box canyon, perfect for picnics, bird watching, or hiking the numerous trails that begin here.
		Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument and other ancient cultural sites are within a few hours drive.
	www.gilariverhouse.com /Guesthouse.htm (496 words)

	Backpacking Destinations - Places - :Gila Wilderness Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		New Mexico's largest Wilderness, the Gila was also the world's first designated Wilderness area, created on June 3, 1924 at the insistence of Aldo Leopold.
		The northeastern and extreme eastern portions are high mesas and rolling hills cut by deep canyons of the East Fork, Middle Fork and West Forks of the Gila River and wooded in pinyon and juniper with areas of grassland.
		The three forks and the Gila River run year-round, and water is often available in creeks, springs and tanks.
	www.backpacker.com /place/0,2678,540,00.html (380 words)

	The lure of unknown places - Gila Wilderness Area, New Mexico Sunset - Find Articles
		More troubling, perhaps, is the sense, even among some thoughtful environmentalists, that wilderness is a noble lost cause: that in the era of the Wal-Mart SuperCenter and the global positioning satellite, there are no places left that are unknown.
		Places like the Gila may no longer be unknown, but they remain in some sense unknowable: beautiful enough to remind us that we could not create them; big enough to remind us that we are small.
		The 75th anniversary of the Gila Wilderness will be celebrated June 3-6 with art exhibits, hikes, talks, and other events.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_5_202/ai_54482814 (723 words)

	Wilderness Watch - Online
		Wilderness without SWAT teams – The March edition of the Wilderness Guardian reported that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was considering allowing a private commercial enterprise to conduct survivalist training in the Sacatar Trail Wilderness in California.
		The Gila Wilderness is America's first wilderness, established administratively by the Forest Service in 1924 at the urging of Aldo Leopold.
		Seeing giant condors soaring on thermals over the region will enhance the area's wilderness character, and finding a means of achieving this without placing structures and using helicopters inside the wilderness is to be commended.
	www.wildernesswatch.org /guardian/2003/apr03.html (1828 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Gila Wilderness at Epinions.com
		The scenery along the branches of the Gila is beautiful- massive cliffs seem to surround you.
		The best time to visit the Gila Wilderness is in June, after the snow has melted but before the summer monsoon.
		One note: the rivers are being restocked the the native (and also endangered) Gila Trout, so the fly-fishing isn't nearly what it was a few years ago.
	www.epinions.com /content_180885884548 (335 words)

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