Private
- 43.7% of the land is private.
- Land uses include domestic, commercial and agriculture.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- 18.3% of the land is federally owned and managed by the Hassayampa and Lower Sonoran Field Offices of the Bureau of Land Management.
- The AMA includes 3,082 acres of the 21,000-acre Big Horn Wilderness, 24,453 acres of the 31,200-acre Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, 1,830-acres of the 13,350-acre Signal Mountain Wilderness and 11,715 acres of the 14,400-acre Sierra Estrella Wilderness. The AMA also includes a portion of the Sonoran Desert National Monument that encompasses two additional wilderness areas, the North and South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness areas (See Figure 8.0-13).
- Land uses include resource conservation, recreation and grazing.
State Trust Land
- 16.0% of the land is held in trust for public schools and multiple other entities under the State Trust Land system.
- Land uses include agriculture and grazing.
National Forest
- 10.2% of the land is federally owned and managed by the United States Forest Service (USFS).
- Forest lands in the AMA are part of the Tonto National Forest and include 22,179 acres of the 160,000-acre Superstition Wilderness. (see Figure 8.0-13)
- Land uses include recreation and grazing.
Indian Reservation
- 8.0% of the land is under tribal ownership as the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Gila River Indian Community.
- Land uses include domestic, commercial and agriculture.
Other (Game and Fish, County and Bureau of Reclamation Lands)
- 3.6% of the land is owned and managed by the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) and county or local governments.
- “Other” includes land managed by BOR for the Central Arizona Project canal and pumping stations as well as a number of local and regional parks. Parks include the 30,000-acre White Tank Mountain Regional Park in the western portion of the AMA, most of the 16,000-acre South Mountain Park on the southern boundary, 19,840 Estrella Mountain Regional Park in the southwest and the 21,099-acre McDowell Mountain Regional Park north of Fountain Hills
- Land uses include water infrastructure and recreation.
U.S. Military
- 0.2% of the land is federally owned and managed by the U.S. Military.
- Military lands include the Luke Air Force Base in the center of the AMA near Litchfield Park.
- Primary land use is military activity.
National Park Service
- 0.1% of land is federally owned and managed by the National Park Service as the Hohokam Pima National Monument.
- Primary land use is resource conservation.
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Figure 8.1-2 Phoenix AMA Land Ownership |
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